On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:30:12AM +0200, J�rg Pommnitz wrote:

> I aggree. Number portability makes a mess out of a lot of things.
> Everything was nice and clean and suddenly sending a SMS through
> a carrier SMSC becomes a nightmare.
> Is there any way at all to figure out the carrier when you only
> have the MSISDN in an environment with number portability? Maybe
> some central MSISDN to carrier server?

Nope, have to talk SS7 and query the HLR

Steve

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