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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5578)	12/31/2002 3:32:10 PM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) of 12229

Names instead of numbers sounds good. At first. But numbers can be and are used in all combinations, with 83610 as good as 63108. Letters/names don't work that way, with hsitm no equal to smith, so we'll have many, many fewer of them. We'd have to extend the name somehow, either with the persons email like you did or with their physical address in order to tell them apart. Once you make the system robust enough to work, to tell all the John Biddles apart from each other, you wind up with a system as hard to use as phone numbers. But back to the original story. I don't really understand the FCC's butting in here. OK, I understand that if there are two local phone companies serving<g> NYC, and both had customers with 212 area codes, and one company was technically able to deliver 7 digit dialing to its customers and prevent same for its competitors customers, that this might inhibit competition. But wouldn't a simpler solution be to just stop the carrier from doing that? Surely there must be a better answer? So, are you in 2003 yet. Am I time traveling by chatting with you?

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