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by jallmann 5680 days ago
Yes, phone numbers are a legacy of the old telecom systems. SIP uses user@domain style URIs, and this can be mapped to a legacy number via ENUM, and vice versa.

4G cellular networks are all IP and use SIP for signalling. I doubt phones are publicly addresssable though, the telco probably NATs them.

I eagerly await a number-free, VoIP-enabled, IPv6 world.