[asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

[SIP]

By law, it's required of all carriers in the US.... which is what, 
now... Verizon and AT&T (are there others anymore?).

N.


Al Lougher wrote:
> You are correct, I missed that. For some reason I thought portability 
> only applied to wireless numbers, I didn't realize you could port from 
> land line to wireless. Can that happen with all major US carriers or 
> say just AT&T?
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 7/31/08, Kevin P. Fleming /<kpfleming at digium.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com>
>     Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service
>     To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
>     <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>     Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:13 AM
>
>     Al Lougher wrote:
>     > Thanks for the info. For some reason I thought Paul had shut his
>     > business down sometime ago otherwise that would
>      have been my first stop.
>     > I do know he had the data previously because I bought some data over a
>     > year ago. I seem to remember the carrier information was not 100%
>     > accurate, however determining the carrier is not a priority, as long as
>     > it tells me it's wireless that's all that matters. It is my
>     > understanding carriers purchase blocks of numbers so really even if
>     > NPANXX lookup gives me the answer then that's all I need.
>
>     You missed the entire point of the previous messages in this thread; now
>     that the US has number portability, 'number blocks' are a thing of the
>     past. I have many friends who have ported previously-wireline numbers
>     onto wireless services, but if you go by the 'number blocks' those
>     numbers will appear to be wireline.
>
>     Depending on how accurate your 'wireless or wireline' query needs to be
>     (and the potential ramifications of it being wrong, say, if you
>      are
>     telemarketing) this could make a big difference.
>
>     -- 
>     Kevin P. Fleming
>     Director of Software Technologies
>     Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)
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