Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ...
by lmm on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:41AM
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A phone number is just an entry in my phone's address book - I don't think I dial them by hand any more often than I type an IP address by hand.
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Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ...
by vidarh on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:56AM
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Exactly. I don't know my moms phone number. Or my sons. Or any friends or colleagues. The only phone number I remember is my childhood home phone number that was drilled into me 35 years ago, and my own number.
Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ...
by snuxoll on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:38PM
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There are exactly 6 phone numbers I can recall from memory, one of them is my grandfathers which I’ve known since I was little, the others are family members on my phone plan because we got assigned a block of contiguous numbers when we switched to T-Mobile.
Re:Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G ...
by WorldMaker on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:22PM
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The last (originally a) land line phone number I had memorized in childhood was quietly lost last year when my grandmother passed away. That personally seemed to mark the end of the era where I'd ever remember a phone number that wasn't one I punch into random "rewards programs" kiosks as an ID of sorts.