Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service

You can port both ways, landline to wireless, and wireless to landline.  So original blocks are now meaningless you have to do near realtime lookups against the Neustar DB.

Cheers

Miles

On Jul 31, 2008, at 6:49 AM, 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) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz

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