Re: [VoiceOps] Fake Voicemail Anti-Robocall Tactics

I expect that people will attest spam. But we're allowed to block carriers by spid if we want if we start getting garbage. The effective telecom death penalty that'd create (along with the liability) will be an interesting enforcement mechanism. From: VoiceOps

Re: [VoiceOps] Fake Voicemail Anti-Robocall Tactics

Y'all realize that if the trust of carriers to not let garbage calls with spoofed near neighbor anis on their networks none of these other problems would exist, right? (using my backup iPhone for the last few days, I have been exposed to the brunt of the garbage google has been call screening

Re: [VoiceOps] Malformed Caller ID

That sounds exactly like you're sending stuff that should be E.164 formatted out as 10 digit national. I looked up DeKalb IL and the first two digits of your area code are "81". Which is the country code for Japan. So your calls are being interpreted as +8157563626 instead of +18157563626 and a

Re: [VoiceOps] STIR/SHAKEN concerns

> On Aug 19, 2021, at 10:22 PM, Mary Lou Carey > wrote: > > I am doing some research for an article so I wanted to ask all of you some > questions about STIR/SHAKEN and the upcoming implementation in late September > when traffic will start getting blocked. I personally envision the first

Re: [VoiceOps] National Do Not Call Registry"

They can delegate their access to you, and you can use that to verify they have legitimate access to the areas in charge, and then maintain your data by compositing the entire list all of your customers have access to and adding their SAN to your client list. I think they have to do something

Re: [VoiceOps] Bandwidth East Coast Issues

I just looked into all the big wholesalers, and they all have terrible peering policies, and are rarely at public exchanges even when it would be trivial *looks at Inteliquent and Equinox Chicago* this is kind of embarrassing for the industry. > On Sep 26, 2021, at 10:33 AM, Mike Hammett

Re: [VoiceOps] thinQ is making hay while Bandwidth is down

As long as they could reach the NPAC, they could port. Everything else is just formalities and details that are technically optional. From: Aryn Nakaoka 808.356.2901 Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:52 PM To: Paul Timmins Cc: Alex Balashov ; VoiceOps Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] thinQ

Re: [VoiceOps] thinQ is making hay while Bandwidth is down

There is literally no TECHNICAL reason they can't. I've helped out other local carriers with some problems where we took over numbers in less than 10 minutes between wireline carriers and just set up forwarding for their customers til the outage was resolved. I moved 200 of my own numbers from

Re: [VoiceOps] Misrouting 911 Calls?

I'm going to be the unpopular one here, and point out that Comcast is not really responsible to route 911 calls for you when you use numbers that they don't provide. For the cost of an hour of an attorney's time, you could just set up trunking to basically anyone else to handle those

Re: [VoiceOps] VoIP SMS Campaign Fees

I look at this like this: If I threatened to charge $10k fees to t-mobile because they didn't use a website i told them to use, that requires individual due diligence and paperwork before sending my users text messages that were business related, they'd laugh at me vigorously. Even if I told

Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

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Re: [VoiceOps] SS7 Landscape

Reduce your reliance on it more and more. Switch to IP tandems (Inteliquent/Peerless/etc) and ip interconnect. The people who make and support SS7 equipment are in a dying market, the brain drain on it is immense as people retire, and the longer you rely on it, the worse it's gonna get. TNS is

Re: [VoiceOps] Waiver request for fees for Reassigned Numbers Database

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Re: [VoiceOps] STI-CA average pricing

Transnexus also has a CA they sell separately. https://transnexus.com/sti-ca/ > On Jun 4, 2022, at 2:05 PM, Mary Lou Carey wrote: > > As far as I know, NEUSTAR is the only CA that will allow you to get a token > without using their STIR/SHAKEN services.I

Re: [VoiceOps] Comcast rejecting port requests for 4 months

Absolutely. The team that does it is startek in the Philippinesanyway last I knew. They work on a different schedule than the continental US, and aren't empowered to solve most problems. If you think being persistent matters, it doesn't. They won't even let you get to a human to complain. The

Re: [VoiceOps] Comcast rejecting port requests for 4 months

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Re: [VoiceOps] Establishing a new LRN

All I've ever had to do was put it in on LTI and that's it. As long as you're the NXX holder with the NANPA (not a thousands block). I'm sure there's somewhere to put it in the LERG if you enjoy dealing with that. I sure don't and never have. On 6/3/22 14:02, Matthew Crocker wrote: Hello

Re: [VoiceOps] TMobile Sending Calls to LRN not Called Number

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Re: [VoiceOps] TMobile Sending Calls to LRN not Called Number

ugh, in the CalledPartyNumber field, not CallingParty. Have not had enough caffeine today. Might not be enough caffeine on the planet for today. On 7/1/21 12:15 PM, Paul Timmins via VoiceOps wrote: STIR/SHAKEN isn't implemented at all in TDM world. I've had problems on and off for years where

Re: [VoiceOps] Inappropriately Signed Calls

re? > https://authenticateapp.iconectiv.com/splist > > How are you turning a signature into a contact point? > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:05 AM Paul Timmins <mailto:p...@timmins.net>> wrote: >> "I just met you and I know this is crazy," >> "but you h

Re: [VoiceOps] Inappropriately Signed Calls

f a misconfiguration, maybe they typo-ed something similar and it happens to be your number, maybe you discovered the next unrepentant robocalling company. Paul Timmins Telecommunications Consultant Timmins Technologies, LLC / telcodata.us 248-379-7826 > On Sep 12, 2023, at 11:27 AM, Jef

Re: [VoiceOps] Request to block number?

It is, and there's a family of youtube streamers out there who make a living doing it (Pierogi at Scammer Payback for example). One of those interesting instances where laws differ between countries. On Sep 20, 2023, at 1:04 PM, Carlos Alvarez via VoiceOps wrote: List messages often arrive

Re: [VoiceOps] Request to block number?

I mean, if you disclosed the information and it wasn't legally protected in a way you had a duty for (a care practitioner disclosing medical information, or a phone company disclosing subscriber information) then you should be cool, I'd think. In the US truth is an affirmative defense for libel

Re: [VoiceOps] Request to block number?

I wonder if the plan is to spoof a victim's number and get people to block someone who is about to be victimized to prevent them from complaining or stopping some form of fraud that they're planning. Did the stir/shaken header on this call indicate it came from Verizon Wireless? > On Sep 19,

Re: [VoiceOps] Directory Listings

A facilities based carrier can write a directory only LSR for numbers on their network. I also had nationwide access to the AT LSR system to write orders for any number I'm reselling, nationwide, with my ITSP OCN that I got back in like, 2005 or something like that. AT will happily sign a

Re: [VoiceOps] [External] Re: 9-8-8 dialing when an outside line access code (9) is being used

Some states (Michigan among them) use +1 for toll alerting. If you dial a long distance call 10 digits, it's supposed to say it requires a 1. On 7/19/22 13:00, James Cloos via VoiceOps wrote: NA> This convention is handy for those who still get charged for NA> long-distance, as you can't

Re: [VoiceOps] What attestation for verified calls?

Attestation A is the one people typically indicate for. None of the other levels really indicate verification of the ID's accuracy. > On Sep 19, 2022, at 9:55 AM, Jeff Anderson via VoiceOps > wrote: > > Has the industry as a whole more or less settled on a particular attestation > level when

Re: [VoiceOps] onvoy contacts?

> Best way to approach a cyber stalker who originates messages from voip > providers I'd defer to the responding officers, but I'd think a couple officers at each door in full battle rattle, with arrest warrant in hand. > On Dec 2, 2022, at 7:05 PM, jd via VoiceOps wrote: > > Woops! No, I

Re: [VoiceOps] TF number ported out/re-assigned without authorization

I can’t imagine why the new user of the number would want all those misdirected calls, it’ll probably cost them a pretty penny. What a mess for everyone. > On Mar 23, 2023, at 00:57, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps > wrote: > > Have the customer sue Thinq, if they feel it is worth it. > > Or

Re: [VoiceOps] Off-Net Numbers

I mean, call them and see what trunk group they come in on. Surely there must be a hint like that somewhere. They can't come in out of thin air. On Mar 17, 2023, at 4:25 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote: Historically, we used multiple entities to get us off-net numbers. Who, what, when,

Re: [VoiceOps] Neustar SOA Archives

Ask to get a BDD set up from the NPAC and you'll have a copy of the regional LNP database every morning, piping fresh. You'l want to write a script or something because the files are a lot too big for something like excel, but a comparison is easy at that point. On Feb 22, 2023, at 6:18 PM,

Re: [VoiceOps] Neustar SOA Archives

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Re: [VoiceOps] Neustar SOA Archives

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Re: [VoiceOps] Neustar SOA Archives

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Re: [VoiceOps] 911 Records of Inbound-Only TNs

I'd say that the only way it will come up is if someone calls 911 and there's no record found or a misroute. If there's no possible way to call out from that number to 911, then there's no need to place a 911 record in the databases. There will never be an audit that tries to check every

Re: [VoiceOps] Alarm panels and how they dial DTMF digits - pots migration from DMS to Metaswitch issue

I wouldn't be surprised if you were seeing it try to dial DTMF, then pulse, then DTMF again if the call didn't cut through very quickly. I saw this with some fire panels that I was connected to once upon a time - they'd dial 7 digits, the adtran was configured to cut through on 10 digits or to

Re: [VoiceOps] TN Reputation Services

I'm guessing they want to register with the various reputation services to avoid being flagged as a robodialer. Free Caller Registryfreecallerregistry.com firstorion.comTNS Report a Robocallreportarobocall.comSubmit a request – Hiyahiyahelp.zendesk.comThere's also a paid service that Neustar runs

Re: [VoiceOps] STIR/SHAKEN warning!

> On Jul 3, 2023, at 8:05 PM, Markus via VoiceOps wrote: > > Am 30.06.2023 um 23:00 schrieb Mary Lou Carey via VoiceOps: >> I've heard from several clients that their upstream carrier told them they >> don't need to worry about being STIR/SHAKEN compliant because they are >> taking care of

Re: [VoiceOps] STIR/SHAKEN warning!

Always worth pointing out that in March 2020, Somos rolled out TFNIdentity. We have it set up on customers who want to source from their TFNs, I haven't seen many carriers actually look it up, but it does exist. > On Jul 7, 2023, at 5:34 PM, Nathan Anderson via VoiceOps > wrote: > > I

Re: [VoiceOps] Historic Number Data (+1)

I (telcodata) do have an archive of the NANPA data files and the CNAC taken 3 times a week since 2020-10-28. Not sure if they'll work for you. On 7/13/23 15:10, Calvin E. via VoiceOps wrote: What are some recommended sources of number data, as it has changed over time? I only need from 2019

Re: [VoiceOps] Dominican Republic LERG Data

Because all unassigned prefixes go to the local ILEC. Things don't have to be in the LERG to work when things work that way. > On Aug 9, 2023, at 7:15 PM, Peter Beckman via VoiceOps > wrote: > > Yet I called them! How would that be possible if it was a typo? > > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2023, Mary

Re: [VoiceOps] Dominican Republic LERG Data

NANPA doesn't run 828 beyond just setting that area code aside and delegating it to the DR government, and localcallingguide.com appears to just assume everything goes to the incumbent (809-200- through 809-999- with the exceptions that are listed in the

Re: [VoiceOps] TF CPR dip?

(I am a RespOrg, entity code OG sends its love!) If you have access to TCAP queries via SS7 or SIP, you can fire the query yourself. Most records don't have a CPR, or have a very small one. if you're a RespOrg in the SOMOS database, you cannot see other people's CPRs unless the ownership is

Re: [VoiceOps] TF CPR dip?

ou're tall enough to ride their ride, even those usually are wholesale through a smaller carrier who they'd rather negotiate with than you directly. (* shut up, you're the exception that proves the rule if anyone wants to bicker about that here.) -Paul > On Aug 9, 2023, at 11:26 PM, Pau

Re: [VoiceOps] Call term misrouting?

I wouldn't be surprised to see carriers dumping these calls via a GSM gateway, this is really common in europe with gray routes. It'd explain why you get weird cellular voicemail, if they sent the number to the cell phone wrong to actually dial out. > On Jul 26, 2023, at 6:36 PM, Nathan

Re: [VoiceOps] Releasing numbers back to original carrier

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Re: [VoiceOps] AT Wireless / FirstNet routing issue contact

Oh hey, I didn't see who was creating this email. Have you tried the rural call completion route, Collin? https://about.att.com/sites/rural_call_completion The FCC is taking a dim view of this nonsense lately and is ready to bring some FO to the FA game. On 2/20/24 14:02, Collin Rose via

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