Lookup telephone number providers?
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Does anyone know a way to lookup which providers are providing a specific telephone number?
I've been going back and forth with our phone company in NC. They have no records of any of our numbers on file or attached to our account. I talked to our former provider and they said we moved to our current one in May of 2011. Of course there is no documentation to be found, on either end, about this migration. So I am trying to see who these numbers are registered too.
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Ahh, right into my fun.
Short of having access to Telcordia, nothing out on the interwebs is 100%. Things get goofy when it comes to cell and VoIP providers as well, because lots of folks resell to Level3 which makes it harder to understand who is exactly supplying it and porting makes things crazy. Most of the databases out there are for the original providers. Most of it will be with ILECs and such.
This site appears to have things pretty close. It picked up my original SWB phone number and was able to narrow it down to the right VoIP provider and was able to identify my ported Google Voice number.
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@PSX_Defector said:
Ahh, right into my fun.
Short of having access to Telcordia, nothing out on the interwebs is 100%. Things get goofy when it comes to cell and VoIP providers as well, because lots of folks resell to Level3 which makes it harder to understand who is exactly supplying it and porting makes things crazy. Most of the databases out there are for the original providers. Most of it will be with ILECs and such.
This site appears to have things pretty close. It picked up my original SWB phone number and was able to narrow it down to the right VoIP provider and was able to identify my ported Google Voice number.
Thanks for that information. The number appear to be registered with ALEC Inc. Which seems to be a municipal broadband lobbying group.... the ISP/Telcom in NC is owned by the city so that would make sense. I will keep looking.
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@PSX_Defector thanks for that. It shows that my VoIP.ms numbers are all owned my level 3.
While my St. Louis region voice pulse numbers all show McLeodUSA Telecommunication Services, Inc
Of note with this. Only the voice pulse lines have intermittent issues calling some numbers.
Been trying to find a problem. This may be the cause.
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@JaredBusch said:
While my St. Louis region voice pulse numbers all show McLeodUSA Telecommunication Services, Inc
Of note with this. Only the voice pulse lines have intermittent issues calling some numbers.
Been trying to find a problem. This may be the cause.
McLeod is a third string voice provider in the grand scheme of things, but they should have plenty of interconnects to the POTS network to route that call properly. Almost everyone in VoIP buys numbers from someone else. That's why Level3 showed up for your other lines. It keeps the VoIP provider in numbers across the country and keeps Level3 in easy money.
For your problem, gotta narrow it down. IntraLATA, InterLATA? Specific exchanges or specific numbers? SIP to SIP? SIP to POTS? Cross carriers? Or the ever so fun forward to external number that happens to be international.
