PSTN address expansion

Jack Bates jbates at brightok.net
Sat Feb 12 04:28:32 UTC 2011


On 2/11/2011 10:17 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> Bah, I substitute your short sighted 12 digits with 40 digit dialing! 
> However, because the numbers are too long to remember, you only have 
> to speak or type in the name of someone you want to call, and 15 
> digits can be assigned to every household or business site, and the 
> phones will automatically number themselves, so if you plug your phone 
> in somewhere else, only the first 25 digits change.
>
> Jack (hmm, I think the VP will be giving me funny looks now)

My apologies for the error, it will actually be a 32 digit system, and 
we're switching to base-16, so all phones will have to be replaced with 
phones supporting 0-9A-F.


Jack




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