[LINK] Peter Cockrane, futurologist... *cough* predicts the death of land lines

Glen Turner gdt at gdt.id.au
Fri Aug 31 11:14:09 AEST 2012


On 30/08/12 11:53, Paul Brooks wrote:
> PSTN is about the ability to reach any other PSTN terminal on the planet by dialling a
> E.164 number. Even mobiles are part of the PSTN.

E.164 numbers are a declining utility even today: you can view the
authentication schemes of Facebook, Twitter, MSN, etc as the beginnings
of a fight as to who will control the naming technology which supplants
E.164.

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Glen Turner   www.gdt.id.au/~gdt



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