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- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- From: jeremyf@cix.compulink.co.uk (Jeremy Folkes)
- Subject: Re: OFTEL number changes
- Reply-To: jeremyf@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:48:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.762465@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- In-Reply-To: mandarin@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Cox)
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- Mr Cox writes:
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- > "home banking" terminals. These lines do need to be identified by numbers
- > even if they do not receive incoming calls. So home banking does create a
-
- This is something I always wondered about. Although I can see very
- good administrative reasons for *all* PSTN lines having a national
- number, it isnt *really* necessary. Now that BT (and I presume other
- PTOs) have introduced separate account numbers, which at least for
- residential customers are allocated one per line, it should be
- possible to separate the "account" designation from the "port"
- designation from the "directory number". After all, we are only
- talking about the "customer visible" number..... the PTO can do
- whatever they like internally.
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- A non-dialable number (eg containing alpha characters) could be used
- if a phone number-like designation is needed (eg to identify the
- "line" for emergency calls).
-
- Not that I think it'll ever happen, but worthy of some thought!
- Lots of good reasons why not but we seem to use the DN for more than
- we should.
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- Jeremy
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