OZ Phone numbers set for shake-up October 25, 2010
The communications regulator is set to overhaul Australia's telephone numbering system after noticing an increase in the use of internet-based phone calls, as well as general consumer apathy about the cost of calls.
Use of area codes, free-call numbers and special numbers set aside for satellite services and early-adaptors of internet telephony will be examined in an historical shake-up of the telephone numbering plan outlined in a discussion paper released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority this morning.
"The ACMA cannot predict exactly where [technology] developments are leading, but it is clear that they are leading away from consistency with the current numbering arrangements," the ACMA's paper said.
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