Phone Numbers Go Locationless

flipper65 writes "Well, it looks like one of the last bastions of the regional Bells is under attack. Now your VoIP provider can give you their own area code and exchange. With the proliferation of broadband and voice services, your land line is now as mobile as your cell phone, and cheaper. Look for this to turn in to a battle royal. The regional bells will not go quietly into that good night."

Comments

How can I say ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't care, I'm deaf !

Re:How can I say ?

[Hogwash McFly]

Err, I'm deaf you insensitive clod!?

Hmmm...

[Wes Janson]

I'm not so sure this is a good thing. In any case, it's truly the end of an era. So long, farewell.

Now when you get that phone call shouting "FP!" you'll never really know where it came from.

Re:Hmmm...

[ramblin billy]

And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! I've seen enough of the overbilling, broadband blocking, monopoly craving sons of Bells to last me a lifetime. I quit doing business with Qwest because I could not abide the thought that part of my monthly payment was going to be used to pay the legal fees of some of their top executives charged with consumer fraud. I guess I don't mind paying for the prosecution (like I have a choice) but paying for the defense seems a bit like bringing KY to the prison shower.

Ma Bell is back

[alexwcovington]

With a vengeance, too. I doubt AT&T in its heyday was less scrupulous than these guys. Next thing you know they'll be charging us for long distance Internet.

Country codes...

[BlackMagi]

Can they give me my own country code? I'm from Australia...

Re:Imagine ordering a pizza?

[Anonymous Coward]

tough for the pizza shops. I guess they will have to change their ways.

Of course you could always try a healthier alternative

Re:VoIP is great.

[johannesg]

I go on a trip for the weekend (out of the country). I can take my home phone with me.

I do the same thing, but the long cable is a real problem. People complain, especially when I board a plane with it.

Regional Bells?

[pjdoland]

There are regional bells left to "go quietly into the night?"

I thought they had all been acquired slowly by SBC?

Re:Yay.

[wrackley]

Caller-id is nice. But the service that I am looking for is caller-IQ.

Ooh!

[Greyfox]

Dibs on 666!

Oddly enough I live in the 666 exchange in Lafayette. I get a fair number of odd looks when I give a phone number that starts (after the area code) with 666. I'd heard that phone companies were avoiding that number in their exchanges due to that silly superstition, but I guess with how tight the phone numbers are getting they had to use 'em all. Phone number of the beast heh heh heh...