[Tagging] [Key:phone] - Suggesting wiki page changing

[Warin]

On 26/09/19 05:34, Colin Smale wrote:
>
> On 2019-09-25 21:19, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> before number portability was introduced, a landline was more 
>> connected to a place than to a person/business, while mobile phones 
>> always have been personal. Big companies may be different, but places 
>> with small businesses often keep the number when the tenant changes.
>>
> That is a sweeping generalisation. Small businesses, and individuals, 
> are often able to take their number with them when moving address. 
> These days you can even take geographic numbers to different areas in 
> some cases. The current situation in the areas I am aware of (W. 
> Europe) is that the geographic indication that may be given by a 
> certain prefix is of ever-decreasing value, and that the distinction 
> between landline and mobile numbers is also blurring. These days it is 
> simply a number.
> Be careful, as I am, not to project the situation in your 
> personal environment onto the rest of the world.


In Australia most, if not all, landlines will not process SMS calls. 
They may not take video calls, etc.
Most mobile (cell) phones will process SMS, photos, documents and video 
information.
The ability to identify phones that have SMS, etc capabilities may be 
desired.

Fortunately cell phones in Australia have a prefix of 04 that identifies 
them as cell phones, I think if called internationally that gives a +61 
4 xx xxx xxx number. Not certain if that works but it follows the 
usually rules here for intentional calls.

Landline numbers used to be fixed to some address. These days the number 
can be taken by the subscriber to another address (if they stay within 
the same area code, outside that the number may already be in use).



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