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I don't think we need a system of phone numbers at all - IPv6 by itself can already do that. The biggest roadblock there is that the scammy telco industry's en
by Rjevski 9y ago
I don't think we need a system of phone numbers at all - IPv6 by itself can already do that.
The biggest roadblock there is that the scammy telco industry's entire business model is based on charging through the ass for what is essentially a 8kbps voice channel. Doing calls via IP would cut that revenue stream and would put a lot of irrelevant people out of a job so it'll be very hard to succeed, though I fully support the idea - it's complete heresy that I can download a 1GB file across the Atlantic for pretty much free but a 12 hour call that would total maybe 40MB would cost a ton.
- Latteland 9y agoI get your point but the phone companies wouldn't be able to survive, and when I talk to people on wifi it's never as good as a phone call. They must be using dedicated routing or something, even though I think we are past the world of direct circuits.
- Rjevski 9y ago> I get your point but the phone companies wouldn't be able to survive Do we need them to survive? They can and should go the way of the dodo and leave place for ISPs instead. > and when I talk to people on wifi it's never as good as a phone call That's a side-effect of crap Wi-Fi gear, but can be resolved by placing the call over LTE and using stuff like MPTCP to combine both the Wi-Fi and LTE connection. In fact, VoLTE is essentially SIP (which is IP-based) over LTE, so there's a good chance you're already using an IP system and not realising it, which I guess proves the point that it's good enough if not better than legacy circuit-switched calls.