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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by imgabe on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:43AM (#32603736)
It will be like phone numbers where your area code for the rest of your life is wherever you lived when you first got a phone.
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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by lisper on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:16AM (#32603903)
You mean like it actually is today with mobile phones?
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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by afandian on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:20AM (#32604199)
This may be how it is in the States, but in the UK all mobiles phones start with 07 (other area residential codes start 01, 02 etc).

I always found it weird that the US numbering system assumes that mobile phones are static. Must be some weird technical debt buried somewhere.

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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by kube-system on Friday August 26, 2022 @10:02AM (#32607686)
The first mobile phone I used only had coverage in a particular area. It didn’t work outside of town.
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