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 <[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)
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