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So what is your point ..you don’t use phone numbers so the rest
of the planet shouldn’t? From: Phillip
Hallam-Baker [mailto:hallam@xxxxxxxxx] I don't much see the issue here. Looking at my AT&T records, I have made about 1000
iphone calls in the past year. Of those less than 50 are to numbers not in my
contacts and I probably dialed half of those using Safari. Telephone numbers are not going away, but telephone dialing
is already a necessary legacy thing more than a current requirement. At this point I don't think that there are any telephone
numbers I dial from memory. I think that the underlying problem here is that the crappy
POTS handsets on sale today do not interface to Internet telephony systems
well. This whole problem would go away if Cisco and the other
makers of VOIP bridges worked out that the real market requirement here is for
a box that plugs into an ethernet port and connects to DECT6.0 telephones
rather than a box that plugs into an ethernet port and has telephone wires
sticking out the back. That way the VOIP system knows how long the telephone number
from the phone book entry. Your basic problem here is that you are losing this
information by converting all your data to the obsolete POTS wire format and
back. Anyone who wants to do that should further realize that what
they need to do is to allow for multiple boxes on the same VOIP connection in a
secure fashion. DECT6.0 does not have the range to cover some houses and for
some reason the pinheads that designed it seem to think that 6 phones is enough
for one house. |
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