[asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

[Miles Scruggs]

You can port both ways, landline to wireless, and wireless to  
landline.  So original blocks are now meaningless you have to do near  
realtime lookups against the Neustar DB.

Cheers

Miles

On Jul 31, 2008, at 6:49 AM, 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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