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Public service companies/utilities such as Hospitals, fire
brigade, doctors, electric supply companies, pharmacy,
vehicle emergency, pizza order, phone order businesses
etc should have standardized phone numbers.
e.g. Lets assume phone numbers are 7 digits. First three
are exchange code.
Lets say numbers 1111-1119 are reserved for local
doctors/physicians etc. So if any exchange code suffixed
by 1111 will go to local doctor. e.g. 555-1111, 213-1112
will be doctors phone number. and so on...
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Telephone numbers are an artifact of crude switched-circuit communications systems, dating back 150 years - a legacy app. |
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Why not just replace telephone numbers (which are location dependent) with email-type addresses ? Upcoming telephony/comms technologies can easily implement this. |
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... or just living in Tennessee ... |
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When someone sets up a business, they may choose a 'phone number which spells out something significant, though not over here. This in itself can be hard due to numbers already being taken, and this is the problem. It could work for public services but not for plumbers or pizza delivery unless lots of people had to start afresh with a new number which would either have to be forwarded or would render all their business cards, Yellow Pages ads, websites and the like obsolete. Not popular. |
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//scheame// I think you left out an 'r'. |
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//Why not just replace telephone numbers ... with email-
type addresses ?// Good idea! Makes things easier for the
humans, not so much advantage for your kind. |
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Numbers are easier for me to remember, to be honest. |
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To find a nearby doctor's phone no., I will have to
find out his email "type" address; But with other idea
I can *predict* the number. |
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Whats the difference between an email address and
a phone no. anyway ? |
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A 'phone number is more like an IM address than an email one. Email is more like an ansafon. |
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With an email type address it would be
doctor@washington.tel |
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