> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Andreas Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2002 19:45 > > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Betreff: Re: patch > > > > And furthermore you have number portability so you wont know > > which prefix > > really belongs where because the number might now belong to another > > carrier. > >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?
This is country specific. One possibility is to look up all network's HLR record to find which one responds to that number but its kinda tricky and only useful if done from a SMSC level (SS7). -- Andreas Fink Fink-Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tel: +41-61-6932730 Fax: +41-61-6932729 Mobile: +41-79-2457333 Address: A. Fink, Schwarzwaldallee 16, 4058 Basel, Switzerland E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.finkconsulting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Something urgent? Try http://www.smsrelay.com/ Nickname afink
