[asterisk-users] Phone Number Validation

[A J Stiles]

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016, Rizwan H Qureshi wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I need to develop a service which tells me whether a given phone number is
> in service and is valid or not. It can be international number. This is
> basically to clean the list of leads we have. Is there any service which
> can give me the required information?
> 
> I currently have an international numbering plan database which only tells
> me if the given phone number is in valid format up to a certain area code.
> But I need to know whether it will ring or not. Any help will be
> appreciated.

There is exactly one way to find out whether or not a given telephone number 
will answer:  Dial it.

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AJS

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