On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:28:23PM +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > On Montag, August 11, 2003, at 05:15 Uhr, Steve Kennedy wrote: > >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, > This is pretty simple. you ask the HLR about the location of a user to > deliver SMS and you will get back its IMSI number which starts with the > mobile network country code and then the mobile network code. > We're doing it on our SS7 system but so far no one has shown interest > to use it so we didnt develop this functionality further.
Yup, maybe elsewhere in EU, but in the UK it's difficult ... there's probably a market for it over here ... Steve p.s. assuming Switzerland is almost EU :) -- NetTek Ltd Phone/Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 SMS steve-pager (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19
