Number Portability and Number Range intelligence enables advanced traffic routing, accounting and fraud management for Voice over LTE (VoLTE), Business Messaging, Rich Communication Services (RCS) and other advanced communications services. Using Number Portability and Number Range information:
In voice markets prefix routing was once commonplace but with today’s IP based technology, interconnects can be established quickly and economically. The resulting highly meshed networks opens the door to improved routing efficiency and service quality, less complex billing and revenue assurance due to less hops as well as opportunities for margin improvement.
These benefits can only be achieved through accessing industry leading number range and number portability integrated with network switches as well as OSS/BSS systems. XConnect’s Number Information Services enable this access via simple, secure, scalable, and real–time enum, sip query or http interface
Read more in Steve Heap’s, CTO of Hot Telecom, article on “Number Portability: a puzzle unlocking voice opportunity” focuses on the recent developments for international voice carriers.
Real-time B number portability status enables direct routing and A-number range intelligence enables regional surcharge management, both resulting in a better understanding of the real termination cost which leads to improved margins and lower risks. In conjunction, B number range and hotlists can remove millions of unnecessary or fraudulent voice calls per day from routing.
Customers access XConnect’s unified Number Portability data via simple, secure, scalable, and real–time enum, sip query or http interface.
Wangiri and IRSF are increasingly significant threats to voice service providers. Common threat vectors include the use of unallocated number ranges and known premium rate ranges. XConnect’s cloud based global number lookup services provides A and B number intelligence to mitigate these threats.
XConnect’s industry leading number range and hotlists information can be integrated with switches, accounting systems and fraud management technologies using a simple ultra low latency query or data download.
In messaging markets, mobile operator groups and international message hubs require access to number range and number portability information with unprecedented scale, performance and accuracy. XConnect delivers the ultra-low latency, high capacity, secure access to authoritative and private number information that these businesses need to be competitive.
As the immediacy of communicating through apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp becomes the norm, businesses are starting to re-think how they can engage with their customers.
A global Communications Service provider (CSP) that needed to query large amounts of data to help with accurate and efficient voice traffic routing and A2P message delivery, was looking for a cost-effective solution that would help it to avoid the additional head count, regulatory and cost challenges it would incur if it had to manage everything in house.
XConnect has been nominated for ‘Best Voice Service Innovation’ in Capacity’s Global Carrier Awards 2020. We have been recognised for our commitment in enhancing our carrier customers’ data, by developing our global numbering intelligence, and finding a solution for tackling Origin Based Rating (OBR).
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