Mobile Numbers in India may go from 10 digits to 11

[vivekindia]

i heard the situation was better off in the US where they've an integrated number system.but they dont have the high growth rates in subscribers as we've here.

India adds 13.45 mn mobile users in Feb: TRAI- Telecom-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times

 

[cyberwiz]

hmm..wat next the hexadecimal number system for mobiles?They are already using hexadecimal notation in IPv6

 

[vivekindia]

interesting point.mobile phones and computers are converging and are being used for internet access.will it be ipv6 vs mobile numbers??

 

[Sushubh]

argh. any mobile connecting to internet would have an IP address.

 

[vivekindia]

but its only a temporary ip address..

 

[honey01]

or use PAT to allow multiple phones share single IP...

 

[amish]

IPv6 can also be represented in decimal .Sameway current mobile numbers can be represented in hex too!Its just that hex is better for comp and mobile numbers are for humans.But afterall they all are integers.

 

[cyberwiz]

ofcourse they can be converted from one notation to another.

Its just that hex is better for comp and mobile numbers are for humans.
how is HEX better for computers ? last time i checked they were only understanding binary..on the contrary hex is easier for humans than binary.

 

[amish]

Conversion from HEX to BIN is very easy (HEX is nothing but BIN^4 i.e. 2^4). So HEX and BIN are same. Hex is not easy for normal human. But yes HEX is easiest way for human to tell something to comp, else typing IPv6 address in BIN wud be craziest thing that human being wud be doing!Hope you wud agree

 

[cyberwiz]

wat can one say against philosophies of gandhiji :cool2: