[asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

[Al Lougher]

I couldn't find any information on Neustar's site regarding accessing their DB, and I certainly don't want to pay someone like Mblox 3-5cents per lookup. And I'm guessing accessing Neustar's DB is not going to be cheap anyway, does anyone know their costs?

Thanks
Alan


--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Miles Scruggs <asterisk at wideideas.com> wrote:
From: Miles Scruggs <asterisk at wideideas.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, 6:57 AM

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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