Re: [RFC] Number portability hooks

Just to clarify to all... I meant that it's probably the same here in
Australia... as we tend to lag a little behind the United Kingdom... I
apologise if my previous email did not read this way... I wasn't contesting
anything, just confirming.

On Monday, 2003-08-11 at 11:07:47 PM, Benjamin Lee scribbled:
> For what it's worth, 
> 
> I believe the "maturity" of the Australian mobile network is (continuously)
> just behind that of the United Kingdom... so currently, here, down under, I
> highly doubt we, as SMSC clients, have direct access to MSISDN porting
> information, either via SS7 or similar. I've heard rumours that location
> information may be provided soon... but there are also legislative /
> privacy issues.
> 
> The arrangement in Germany sounds pretty sweet, though.
> 
> On Monday, 2003-08-11 at 10:49:06 PM, Steve Kennedy scribbled:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Stipe Tolj wrote:
> > 
> > > as many countries deploy MSISDN number portability in their GSM
> > > networks, which means you as a end-customer can take your MSISDN to an
> > > other operator when you switch, makes things a bit more complicated on
> > > the SMS gateway side.
> > 
> > Unfortunately it's not too easy to get porting info, as it will be
> > stored in the HLR of the operator, and unless you have an SS7 connection
> > to them you'll never know the number's been ported.
> > 
> > i.e. say in UK you have 07775 123456, this is a Vodafone number
> > (allocated in a block by Oftel). If the user ports it, they will put an
> > entry into their HLR which points the number to another network, and
> > they put it in their HLR.
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe now they are opening up location based services, they'll also
> > allow other access to HLR's ???
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
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