Steve, I've been following this thread with interest.
We're planning to collect information on a user's mobile operator via our soon-to-be-launched reverse billing operation. We also operate a bulk SMS and business messaging site, so this sort of information would be useful for least cost routing. I appreciate it'd take a rather long time to build up a profile of even a small chunk of UK mobile users, but it's a start. I haven't looked into the legal / data protection implications, but could a few of us get together to put information into a central database? Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [RFC] Number portability hooks > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:01:50PM +0200, Nisan Bloch wrote: > > > I would prefer to see some sort of lookup interface.. Something like a > > "HLR" box. > > Of more importance is how to implement the lookup and when (as this will > > incur a msg cost)? Use some third party? Do some SS7 integration? Booktrout > > have some nice APIs with their SS7 cards. > > Also of course if we keep the numbers in a hash table, when does one > > refresh? > > Od course this begs the question, how does one query an HLR using SS7, > the UK networks are extremely unlikely to allow any 3rd party that > hasn't signed roaming agreements/whatever. > > Maybe a nice friendly foreign operator could be persuaded to offer such > a service, and maybe someone would like to sit a box somewhere to allow > 3rd party queries ? hmmmm ... You'd need to implement MAP/SS7, but hey. > > > Steve > > -- > NetTek Ltd Phone/Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 > SMS steve-pager (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19 > > >
