[asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

[Jacob Suter]

Not entirely...

My 936-546-6479 number was not portable.  That's a Verizon Wireless number
out of a Windstream/Valor/GTE/Contel exchange.  AT&T couldn't/wouldn't port
it (who sells numbers out of the same 936-546 exchange) and Sprint said they
couldn't touch it.  Now I'm a happy Sprint customer in a portable
cellular-only block.

My 936-687-xxxx Windstream/Valor/GTE/Contel number is not portable by
anybody.  If anyone can actually port this, let me know, I'd much rather
send you money (and you send me the calls via SIP or IAX) than paying too
much for a POTS line I do nothing with except program call forwarding (to a
local SIP DID) on once a year or so...

Of course, this is also one of those pathetic places in Texas where there's
no electric competition.  It's always nice to pay double everyone else's
rate per KW/h.

JS

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
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Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:55 AM
To: alougher at yahoo.com; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

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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