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 /<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > From: Kevin P. Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Wireless lookup service > To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" > <[email protected]> > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > --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 _______________________________________________ --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
