NUMBERING PLAN FOR INTERNET TELEPHONY
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Abstract:
In the last few years, there have been a revolution in the telecommunication scenario of the country. There are new services like paging, cellular, etc. Some private basic service operators have started providing service. Iridium is to soon launch satellite-based telephony service. There are IN services like universal number, freephone, premium call services, etc., which are being introduced. All these services require a common resource, that is, a number. Recently, there was a newspaper report suggesting that DoT and TRAI are considering an overhaul of the numbering plan for India. This paper considers another type of nodes that may have to be assigned numbers from the telephony address space (E.164 numbers). With the growing interest in Internet telephony, and merger of data and voice networks, it is possible that in future users may like to receive calls on the PC they are working on. For this to happen, the PC should be addressable in the E.164 domain. In this paper, we describe various numbering schemes that can be used to assign telephone numbers to PC. We compare the scheme, and suggest the one that we may adopt for the country.
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