Subject:  (Fist) (Philips) Re FCC Favors "Blue World" Wireless (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 11 Feb 1999 212347 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:01:57 +1100
From: Stewart Fist 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: (Philips) Re: FCC Favors "Blue World" Wireless (fwd)

I'm not sure about England and Europe, but there's a big difference between
Australia, which has time-related charges on callers who make calls to a
cellphone, and the USA.

The difference is in the ready identification of the number as being a mobile.
 These numbers all begin with a 014 prefix, and so the fact that this is a
timed charge to a mobile is readily apparent.   My understanding is that this
is not so in the USA, and the number is indistinguishable from a normal
residential phone number.

Is that so -- or is there some way of identifying mobile numbers?

Also, can someone tell me what the position is in Europe and other places.


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