> You'd think that with everybody moving to VOIP, demand for actual
> telephone numbers would be *rapidly decreasing*...

I think people still want a real phone number for their desk, even if 
internally it is handled over VOIP. Maybe it's also because there are 
just more jobs where people have a phone on their desk (less 
manufacturing, more service etc).

> Well, yeah... but so is IPv6, technically. ;-)

Not in practise though, unless you envisage the global population going 
up by a factor of a billion, and each person having a billion devices 
that each require a billion IP addresses :-)

> And to think, the dance school only just replaced their sign with one
> that says 01908 rather than 0908...

Where my mum lives about 20+ years ago you could just dial 9 instead of 
0703 as a shortcut to the Southampton exchange. When you see *that* on a 
sign you know it's old.

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