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@digium.com>/* wrote:
>
> From: Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming@digium.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
> <asterisk-biz@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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