> Governments have the right to assign to themselves any telephone number they wish, and reserve ranges of phone numbers for themselves,
They don't do that after the fact.
They don't do that after the fact.
They have and do. https://voiceofpeopletoday.com/kim-jong-un-orders-change-num...
It's unusual for the French government, who has some of the strongest consumer protections on the planet.
I'm not making an argument. I'm stating a fact, because the gp stated an incorrect fact (a generalization about governments). You can take a look at a number of other world countries that have changed phone numbers for various reasons, amounting the to same thing. A trivial refutation of
> They don't do that* after the fact.
* = change the ownership of phone numbers/domains
Things happen slowly in the EU. That's not a surprise to those who live in it.