Address "portability"

Sat Apr 6 16:03:53 UTC 1996

On Apr 5, 21:00, Erik-Jan Bos <erik-jan.bos at surfnet.nl> wrote:
> When I take my GSM-phone to Hong Kong (or to Stockholm) my grandmother
> is still able to give me a call while I am there on the same number as
> when I am at home... Address portability at work...

Not really, your phone doesn't have a routable number as such.  It
has a name which happens to be a number; and it can be reached
outside its natural habitat after 30-90 seconds of searching,
probing, and call setup.  The Internet already handles name
portability, even much better than the phone system.  And there's no
end to what could be done if dial-up users were charged two dollars
per minute for out-of-habitat traffic, whether voice or 9.6kbit data.

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