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 > > > > -- > > NetTek Ltd Phone/Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 > > SMS steve-pager (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19 > > -- > Benjamin Lee > Melbourne, Australia "Always real." http://www.realthought.net/ > > __________________________________________________________________________ > [Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment > where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand > more and more that there is something which cannot be understood. > -- S. Kierkegaard -- Benjamin Lee Melbourne, Australia "Always real." http://www.realthought.net/ __________________________________________________________________________ Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.
