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Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age

Posted by timothy on from the imagine-that dept.

azoblue writes with this teaser from Ars Technica, presenting a tempting suggestion for online consolidation: "E-mail, IM, Facebook, phones—what if all of these ways to reach you over a network could be condensed into a single, unique number? The ENUM proposal aims to do just that, by giving everyone a single phone number that maps to all of their identifiers. Here's how it works, and why it isn't already widely used."

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  1. Re:Spam spam spam... by aurispector · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can you imagine your phone ringing all night with nigerian scammers? 3 am and it's "greetings and salutations, I am a representative of a banking consortium..."

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