Phone Number Falsehoods
This cluster centers on the 'Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers' article, discussing misconceptions like phone numbers not being unique, globally fixed, or permanently owned, including portability, recycling, and international variations.
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Phone numbers do work that way.
Number 4 on the falshoods programmers believe about phone numbers:https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/FAL...
European here: our (mobile) phone numbers are "random". Are yours too or are they matched to a subscription area ?
But phone numbers are not unique. They are regularly re-assigned to new customers.
Due to phone number portability no not really.
Aren't phone numbers longer than they used to be?
We should do something with phone numbers too.
Just two weeks ago: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321236
Or make that much assumptions about their phone numbers
Regular people don't "have" or control any phone number, telcos do.