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UK phone number transfers between networks are handled through a Yahoo Group
- fxleach 7y agoI like the tone of this paper: "A review might consider whether it is befitting for the world's sixth largest economy to manage critical national infrastructure via a Yahoo group but we would hope that is obvious."
- hayyyyydos 7y agoNot transfers, but rather notifying the other carriers of new number range assignments so they can condition their switches to route them. Not as bad as it sounds.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoThis isn't so crazy. Oil traders use Yahoo Messenger [1] [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826186 [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/oil-traders-may-be-the-only-people-who-want-yahoo-to-thrive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/oil-trade...
- dTal 7y agoI feel it's helpful in these cases to distinguish between "crazy" and "unusual". It might not be unusual; it's definitely crazy.
- bhhaskin 7y agoThis is a tweet about a tweet...the link should be changed to the original tweet instead of the current link.
- peterburkimsher 7y agoI hope they change before Yahoo Groups deletes all content in December! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269614