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Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:57:33 -0500
On 4/14/2016 10:32, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:29:39AM -0000, John Levine wrote:The people on nanog are not typical. I looked around for statistics and didn't find much, but it looks like only a few percent of numbers are ported each month, and it's often the same numbers being ported repeatedly.It's a big issue for political pollers, and they have some data: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/05/pew-research-center-will-call-75-cellphones-for-surveys-in-2016/ "roughly half (47%) of U.S. adults whose only phone is a cellphone." "in a recent national poll, 8% of people interviewed by cellphone in California had a phone number from a state other than California. Similarly, of the people called on a cellphone number associated with California, 10% were interviewed in a different state." So maybe 10% of all cell phones are primarly used in the "wrong" area?
OK, let us suppose I want to be a law biding, up right American and use only a cellphone for the "right" area.
I drive a big truck OTR. I usually know what part of which state I am in, but I frequently do not know which part of what state I will be in in 24 hours.
What should I do?Suppose I was, instead, an aircrew member and the only truly stable datum is "Planet Earth"?
-- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
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- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences, (continued)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 13)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences John R. Levine (Apr 13)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 13)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Larry Sheldon (Apr 13)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences John Levine (Apr 13)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Leo Bicknell (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Gary Buhrmaster (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Josh Reynolds (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Larry Sheldon (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Larry Sheldon (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Larry Sheldon (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences John Levine (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Apr 14)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences tim () pelican org (Apr 15)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences John R. Levine (Apr 15)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences tim () pelican org (Apr 15)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Nikolay Shopik (Apr 15)
- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Mark Andrews (Apr 15)
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- Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences Owen DeLong (Apr 15)