Agreed. The more fundamental question was: given the LRN, what's the easiest
way to find out if the switch to which it is homed belongs to a wireless
operator?
The LERG has this information, but a LERG subscription is arguably overkill for
such a narrow application and hard to economically justify, especially given
Telcordia/iconectiv's pricing strategy of, "Well, how much money ya got?" 95%
of the LERG is not needed here.
So, I think the question that best speaks to Carlos's actual line of enquiry is
not, "How do I do LNP dips?" We all do LNP dips around here, with varying
degrees of real-time accuracy depending on our needs and where in the supply
chain we get the data. The real question is whether Neustar, TNS or friends
offer a relatively turn-key live query product that allows one to query a
number and get a current (i.e. based on current LRN) answer of "wireless",
"RBOC", etc. Such a product would allow one to bypass an economically and
technically burdensome intermediate step of querying the LERG.
Just as list scrubbing products are useless for this high-risk application, so
are random resellers and API providers for this data. We don't know where
they're getting the data, how often it's updated, and they have a strong
incentive to cache in any resale play. As Carlos said, "best effort" isn't an
affirmative defence here, so nothing less than the curators of NPAC or their
first-tier derivatives will do.
-- Alex
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Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC
303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30346
United States
Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct)
Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/
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