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Regardless of this, I see phone network as a legacy thing that in perfect world should already be replaced with lightweight upgradeable calling protocol over IP

• fc417fc802 3mo ago
  This would apply equally to said IP calling network since you'd need a SIM card to access the tower interesting strewn across the country either way.
  • dredmorbius 3mo ago
    WiFi / pure-VOIP based calling should be able to disambiguate between the network and the messaging layers. This means that a given cellular modem wouldn't be traceable to a specific contact, or call history. The modems could be swapped amongst individuals readily. This is similar to the situation that already exists for PSTN voice comms currently: Whatsapp, Signal, Jitsi, or similar voice- or video-messaging systems. They'll run over an arbitrary network, through VPNs, etc. Mind, the major comms-apps/social networks might have their own ID requirements forced on them, but there's far less a capability to keep people from defecting from these. I continue to think that global PSTN networks are pretty close to general collapse, given spam, robocalls, harassment, tracking, and similar forms of abuse. Millennials & GenZ are already notorious for their reluctance to make or take phone calls. <https://theconversation.com/young-people-hate-making-phone-calls-could-it-be-hurting-their-careers-232167 https://theconversation.com/young-people-hate-making-phone-c...>
• danhon 3mo ago
  This is essentially requiring ID for IP connectivity.