The problem is that the original version of Internet Protocol (IPv4), on which the bulk of the Internet has been built thus far, has a fixed capacity of 4.3 billion IP addresses.

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Research carried out by Ofcom suggests few people know that net phone services, aka voice over IP, do not connect to 999 or 112, the European Union's universal emergency number for mobiles and fixed lines.

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