Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6438

From: "Thomas Dennis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: How secure is POTS?
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:16:58 +0100
To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

srtgray wrote:
I think Thomas D is German, where "handy" is the usual name for mobile phone.



On Sun, November 15, 2009 3:48 pm, Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE wrote:
  
* Thomas Dennis wrote, On 11/15/2009 8:34 AM:
    
Hi All:
A friend called me three times yesterday using POTS at their end and my
handy # at my end.
      
what is a handy #? Is this a VoIP #?
    
My handy recorded the number that was sent over the telephone line and
placed this number in my "missed calls" box.
This friend (Helen) lives in another city with a different area code.
Calling the number, which is a POTS number that has the same area code
as mine, I get Alan (another friend who lives near me). He claims he
doesn't know Helen and that the call didn't originate from
his phone.
I have no entry for Alan in my handy data base.
      
in the US if you are outside a local calling area then you need to do
full 10 digit dialing which includes area codes. Even if you are inside
a local calling area 10 digit dialing is most likely required. VoIP
calls should all be 10 or 11 digit dialing in the US. Do you have to
dial a leading 1 for long distance?

Leon
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Srtgray and All others listening in:
I'm a transplanted American living in Germany.
Mobile phone numbers start with 016, 017, 018 and no area code is required.
My handy number is usable all over Europe.  If I cross any boarders, a call to my handy number
will still reach me.
The telephone companies have covered Europe with a bunch of low power transcievers to make
this all possible.  How they make the connection to POTS I can't say.
Why would anybody want to do something like that?
Is T-Online (the telephone company) affected by it?

Thomas


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