Fair point -07 can be broader than wireless.
Still not quite the same as number portability to your landline though. You can achieve the same functionality - but at a cost to people calling you which is currently broadly similar to wireless call charges.
Not quite the same in the UK.
As I understand it, in the UK you can transfer wireless numbers to other wireless providers and wired numbers to other wires (within an area).
This means that area codes always give the area and 07.. numbers always give wireless.
This fits broadly with the fact that in the UK, the caller picks up the extra cost for making a call to reach a wireless number rather than it being picked up by the call receiver (whether as a direct charge or bundled with the plan)
To the argument that governments will not abuse powers given to fight terrorism, I give the following.
On April 22nd, there was an anti-war protest at RAF Fairford in the UK. The organisers arranged a coach to transport speakers from london.
The police used their recently acquired post sept-11th powers (acquired despite protest from the civil-liberties lobby) to stop the coach and search it.
Having succesfully found marker pens (magic markers) in the coach, they were able to turn the coach around, take everyone back to London and arrest them all for 'going equipped to breach the peace'. The markers could clearly have been used vandalise as well as to make the banners that were on the coach.
One anti-war protest succesfully neutered.
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Fair point -07 can be broader than wireless.
Still not quite the same as number portability to your landline though. You can achieve the same functionality - but at a cost to people calling you which is currently broadly similar to wireless call charges.
Not quite the same in the UK. As I understand it, in the UK you can transfer wireless numbers to other wireless providers and wired numbers to other wires (within an area). This means that area codes always give the area and 07.. numbers always give wireless. This fits broadly with the fact that in the UK, the caller picks up the extra cost for making a call to reach a wireless number rather than it being picked up by the call receiver (whether as a direct charge or bundled with the plan)
This news following a serious debate on the subject 'Do Privacy Fears Allow Terrorism?'
Technology & the law both give power. There is no reason to believe that a government that abuses one will not abuse the other.
To the argument that governments will not abuse powers given to fight terrorism, I give the following. On April 22nd, there was an anti-war protest at RAF Fairford in the UK. The organisers arranged a coach to transport speakers from london. The police used their recently acquired post sept-11th powers (acquired despite protest from the civil-liberties lobby) to stop the coach and search it. Having succesfully found marker pens (magic markers) in the coach, they were able to turn the coach around, take everyone back to London and arrest them all for 'going equipped to breach the peace'. The markers could clearly have been used vandalise as well as to make the banners that were on the coach. One anti-war protest succesfully neutered.