<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>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?<br><br>Thanks<br><div><br>Alan<br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 7/31/08, Kevin P. Fleming <i><kpfleming@digium.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com><br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service<br>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><br>Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 6:13 AM<br><br><pre>Al Lougher wrote:<br>> Thanks for the info. For some reason I thought Paul had shut his<br>> business down sometime ago otherwise that would
have been my first stop.<br>> I do know he had the data previously because I bought some data over a<br>> year ago. I seem to remember the carrier information was not 100%<br>> accurate, however determining the carrier is not a priority, as long as<br>> it tells me it's wireless that's all that matters. It is my<br>> understanding carriers purchase blocks of numbers so really even if<br>> NPANXX lookup gives me the answer then that's all I need.<br><br>You missed the entire point of the previous messages in this thread; now<br>that the US has number portability, 'number blocks' are a thing of the<br>past. I have many friends who have ported previously-wireline numbers<br>onto wireless services, but if you go by the 'number blocks' those<br>numbers will appear to be wireline.<br><br>Depending on how accurate your 'wireless or wireline' query needs to be<br>(and the potential ramifications of it being wrong, say, if you
are<br>telemarketing) this could make a big difference.<br><br>-- <br>Kevin P. Fleming<br>Director of Software Technologies<br>Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--<br><br>AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona<br>Register Now: http://www.astricon.net<br><br>asterisk-biz mailing list<br>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>