Teleflip goes out of business

I tried the "beltic" system today - system not working. email to ATT customer.

To enhance your beltic system (or any "teleflip" type service), I would suggest utilizing a database that provides carrier information for a given telephone number, such as the following for North America numbers:

http://www.quentinsagerconsulting.com/utilities...

As you can see, the query provides NPA NXX, Central Office, Service Area, LATA and Carrier data... combine this with a CNAM provider, such as http://my.metrostat.net/ (to display the subscribers caller-id name), all in real-time, and you'll have one awesome service (such as http://tirs.us/), although not necessary for this service.

...You could also allow the end-use to register there phone via a SMS verification phrase and select their own carrier if the query fails or isn't correct (due to a recent port for example);

...assuming your proficient in regex, it shouldn't be too difficult to match the automated query carrier result to the corresponding mobile e-mail address.

The North American Local Exchange NPA NXX database (NALENND) is $2,899.95 for an annual license w/ quarterly updates. I would be willing to go in on this 10% if we can combine efforts for a group purchase.

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NALENND™ is a field proven telecommunications database of all active area code and telephone exchange assignments within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

Compiled directly from definitive industry and regulatory sources, NALENND™ delivers accurate and reliable telecom data suitable for use in a variety of mission critical applications. Identify the Rate Center, Wire Center, switch CLLI, LATA, MTA, BTA, or NECA OCN for all active NPA NXX combinations.

V&H coordinates for access and rating mileage calculations. NPA NXX, OCN, LATA, MTA, BTA, and Rate Center data for originating and terminating point identification during CDR reconciliation, traffic and call analysis, rating, and billing or similar tasks.

Identify time zone by telephone number and wireless number assignments at the 1,000 block level to aid with TCPA compliance for call center and tele-marketing type applications.

Hey Scott, is it possible to work with you on somethings related to this subject.
YahooMail-Alert sys has stoped working at beltic due to the yahoo guys changing the old yahoo classic to use Pure Ajax.. Seems like they too have been finally infected with the ajax virus. Am still looking for a work around scraping Ajax pages.. Any Idears?

Kats Lilly -- So glad to find your service. Please contact me at melhi@a5.com My company will likely be using your service -- I tested it this morning and will be contacting my CTO & CDO about checking further whether it's going to work for us (we were set up to use Teleflip on launch, but they didn't last as long as our Dev) and I'd like to have a means by which to contact you if we have questions or information for you to add to your database, etc. I also have an initial question I'd like to ask you, but for confidentiality reasons, I cannot ask it on a public forum.

Scott -- I was actually looking for you when I found Kats Lilly -- you'd be easier to reach out to if I could find current contact info for you. :)

Thanks and best to both of you!
Mel.

kats,

Drop me an email: mikep.midfl.arc -at- gmail.com

hi mike p. Well am interested in the red cross thing. How do i get intouch with them..

Scott, a Teleflip founder,

If you are looking to do some good with your teleflip experience but not specifically looking to make lots and lots of money off of it, an idea.

Many Red Cross chapters seek an easy way to sent alerts to their volunteers so many people do not have to spend hours going through call down lists when a local disaster strikes.

I am just a chapter level volunteer, so I just know how useful a teleflip service would be to "gather the troops" at the push of a button. However, if you are interested, I can bring the idea to the umbrella national Red Cross technology department so you can converse with them about implimentation details.

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I wrote an Excel VBA script that lets you send text messages to contacts from inside Excel. I did this just to play with excel for fun. I don't really use this for anything because of the above mentioned charges - but interesting anyways (see website link)

wwwrapidsharecom/files/206460006/TextMessageList_v3.xls.html

Great steps in the right direction! (having trouble posting here - hope this does not duplicate!)

I've noticed that many cell providers now charge for incoming messages. A pity because this further reduces the usefulness of Text, and is really just double dipping. Bell Mobility (Canada) now does this. So if something like Teleflip/beltic is used, the reciepient pays. We are already paying through the nose for Text anyways!

Also some (like Rogers in Canada) - if a Text is sent to @pcs.rogers.com, they first send a message to the recpient saying "do you want to accept this message". The response "Yes" counts as a chargeable message (and is one extra step that discourages its use).

I've taken to using ebuddy.com to use IM (MSN/Yahoo) from my mobile without this hassle - but that still only lets me reach out to specific people - so not as useful as text could be.

well beltic is not yet as good as teleflip coz I don't have enough time to push it too far. Am in university doing my finals this yr, but the error jack and hpu1966 only indicate that the T-mobile phone-index number you tried is not in the database so the sys can't kno to which mobile to rechannel the msg to.. But as time goes on, the international phone prefix db will get bigger and you will be seeing less of those errors. many pple in USA are using this sys right now.. I have just implimented "YahooNewMail-Alert" sys too and its live just like what teleflip was doing just b4 they went burst.