TechBlog blogged The ideas for using technology to help those displaced by Hurricane Katrina are flowing in, and this is one of the best I've seen yet: release the phones numbers in the New Orleans area and let evacuees reclaim them as Voice over IP service, or VoIP.
It comes from Stuart Henshall over at Skype Journal. Skype, of course, is the popular, PC-based VoIP service.
Henshall says it would work this way: Is it too much to ask Bell South to:>
As is the case with most VoIP services, you can really use the number anywhere -- you're not tied to geography. If this was done, finding someone would be a simple matter of calling his or her last known phone number.
(Spotted on the Scobleizer.)
I agree, this is a fantastic idea
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Give the evacuees their old phone numbers
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