On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 07:56:03AM +0000, Ray Bellis wrote: > On 13 Jun 2013, at 08:43, Jethro R Binks <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm sure all those providers love to manage all those redirection tables. > > I guess Vodaphone (IYRC) particularly relished that job. > ISTR that part of Vodafone's case was that 3GPP is actually pretty good at > call redirection anyway, and that there's no need for mobile calls (and call > media) to "trombone" from one operator to another, they can just do a simple > SIP redirect at call establishment time.
This was initially only going to be mandated for mobile networks. They also lost because Ofcom were not allowed to distort market forces and as was pointed out their business case was flawed. However the UK is pretty much the ONLY network in the world that uses forward porting for mobile. Steve -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 UK +44 20 3432 3735 / US +1 (206) 309-2461 / Fax +44 20 7483 2455 social id stevekennedyuk Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.blogspot.com
