Re: [RFC] Number portability hooks

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 :)

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