[asterisk-users] Mobile Number to Mobile carrier mapping

[Alex Balashov]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Ritesh Agrawal said something to this effect:

> Hi Alex,
> This is a nice summary. Thanks a lot for your response.
> My mere interest was to find out
> (1) if a number is a mobile number
> (2) If #1 is true, then if I had the carrier name, I could generate an SMS
> to the US phone number without asking for the carrier info.

   In that case, using one of the databases I mentioned should work.  You 
probably can't deploy a real-time service based on dynamic queries to
LocalCallingGuide.com (even though they do have an XML query interface)
without working out some sort of arrangement with them, and another
option is the LERG.

   Of course, when I say "work," I mean "you'll be right about 98% of
the time."  The other times, the number's ported, and you won't know.
The only true way to do this is to use an LNP dip via SS7 or some API
to Neustar's NPAC that I don't know about.

-- Alex

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Alex Balashov   <sasha at presidium.org>