Re: ZA phone number allocations
Tiaan van Aardt <tva-4de3xTZDJU/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.operators.ioz |
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| Organization | Truteq Wireless (Pty) Ltd. |
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Hi, On 04-Dec-12 23:31, Simeon Miteff wrote: > How do you figure it must be public knowledge? If operators require > this info for routing, only operators need access to it. > > AFAIK this is already the case: > > http://www.number-portability.co.za/services-offered.php > > ^ This place maintains the database, and sells access to it. Well, technically they only sell access to a database of already-ported numbers. They do not maintain a list of number routing prefixes between the operators. But yes, each operator should know where to route, for example, 0871350594. If I dial it from my handset, my operator will have a routing prefix for that range and route it either via a transit operator or directly if they have direct peering (almost like IP routing/peering). Some operators rely on 3rd party traffic brokers to route traffic on a "default gateway" principle. Eg. see BICS. regards, -Tiaan. -- _____________________________________________________ TruTeq Wireless (Pty) Ltd. Tel +27 12 667 1530 http://www.truteq.com Fax +27 12 667 1531 Copyright & Legal: http://truteq.com/legal_notice.pdf _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz