17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
This is a really difficult issue. And how. How does this interact with phones whose access (telephone) number is non-unique? Could where I am calling from be divorced from what instrument I am using to call? Is there a parallel between smearing the signal over a spectrum of radio frequencies and smearing the identifying information over a spectrum of numbers? Could calls to 911 carry no phone number but just "here I am" information -- a panic button function, in other words? I imagine I sound like someone calling in to an ASK THE EXPERTS radio show... --dan