[asterisk-users] Detect if cell phone or users

[Jay Milk]

I don't think there's any authority in North America that tells you 
whether a number is a cellular number.

However, it's conceivable you could write a script to access information 
available on, for example, www.telcodata.us, and check the prefix-type 
for a given phone number.  The prefix type for all known (to me) 
wireless numbers is, in fact, "WIRELESS" -- you can't pay too much 
attention to the company given on that site, as WLNP makes this 
information quite superfluous.  Keep in mind that LNP in general will 
make this information much less reliable than it used to be before LNP 
-- it's now possible to take your landline to a cell-phone and vice 
versa, so bets are off when it comes to that.

Dovid Bender wrote:
> Hi List,
> I have sprint pcs cellular service and I discoverd that I am able to 
> send a text message to a landline. If I do I get an SMS from the 
> saying I sent a text message to a landline. Then the landline that I 
> sent a text message to gets a call with my message (text to speach). I 
> was wondering if there was any way for me to detect if a number is a 
> mobile phone or a landline. Is this something that only cellular 
> providers can do or can I have asterisk do it (I asume I would need to 
> create a patch). Thanks a lot.
>  
> Dovid
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