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-cal...
"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)