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Ofcom Consultation on UK Number Portabiltiy

1 replies · 1,749 views · Started 18 July 2007

UK phone regulator Ofcom is taking a long look at issues around number portability in the UK, and has presented a document for dicsussion . There's a call for commetns as well - although in light of previous VoIP discussions it goes into some nice background of the current state of play for the British market.

Read on in the full article.

You wonder if numbers could be edged out by usernames for various VOIP services.

Fax numbers were edged out by email addresses, why shouldn't phone numbers be edged out by a VOIP name?

Names would also be far more memorable than numbers, which would make them very attractive to businesses and indeed individuals.