February 2020 - VoiceOps - lists.voiceops.org

Toll Free provider
by kiddfilby＠gmail.com Feb. 7, 2020

Feb. 7, 2020

Its been a long time since I fished in these waters but, its that time. I'm looking to see who are great providers of both 8YY and 8XX traffic. I'm looking for a diverse route from my current carrier. Thank you for any help you can provide. -- Kidd Filby <http://www.linkedin.com/in/kiddfilby>

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Provider CDRs
by voiceops＠ics-il.net Feb. 5, 2020

Feb. 5, 2020

While working to migrate billing systems, I asked our consultant to do X, Y, and Z because that's all I thought was involved. Metaswitch FTPs the info to the billing server, Perl script runs, dumps it into a database. Apparently, there are other scripts on there that do a variety of other things I didn't know about. One of them FTPs into one of our termination providers, pulls down a file, and puts it into a database. Great, except they only set up that process for one termination provider, not the other one. It also hasn't worked in five years (probably due to M&A and deprecated systems), so whatever it was doing, we're not getting the benefit of anymore. Is anyone keeping CDRs from all providers you connect to? I don't mean CDRs your system generates, but ones they generate. The only reason I could think of is to verify your invoices, but I'm not sure that's a big deal or worth it. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com

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RAY BAUMS Act - How are people planning on complying?
by David.Zilk＠cdk.com Feb. 4, 2020

Feb. 4, 2020

For those that don't know, RAY BAUMS Act is a new regulation that impacts Emergency Calling. It mandates that a "Dispatchable Location" be included with information to the PSAP when a 9-1-1 call is made in the US. The deadline for compliance is August 1, 2020 (or August 1, 2021 for some scenarios). Dispatchable Location is defined as "the street address of the calling party, and additional information such as room number, floor number, or similar information necessary to adequately identify the location of the calling party." How are people planning on complying with this? Particularly: 1) When several lines at a site don't have DIDs, and uses a common site phone number for their CLID. How do you provide different location information for them. 2) When there are shared lines on devices in different locations at a site using the same DID. How do you distinguish the correct location of an emergency call made from one of them. 3) When the caller uses a softphone that doesn't have a fixed location. David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, notify the sender immediately by return email and delete the message and any attachments from your system.

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