Tele-Tech Provides the“Missing Link”

We’ve all been there – trying to correlate arcane rate center boundaries used by the telecom industry to other geographic elements. It’s like doing a puzzle with a missing piece – because rate center boundaries don’t align with cities or counties; and sometimes not even with states! The task was time consuming and produced questionable results at best – not to mention a tad frustrating!

Well, no more! Tele-Tech now offers the missing link between telephone boundaries and other geographic boundaries. Zip-Link maps NPA-NXXs (area code/prefix) to United States Postal Service Zip Codes, enabling our customers to determine all zip codes partially or wholly served by each NPA-NXX. Now you can solve the puzzle!

VoIP service providers and other competitive carriers can use Zip-Link to aid in telephone number assignment. Often, new customers signing up for service don’t have an existing phone number on which the selected service provider can base their number assignment. With Zip-Link, the customer’s billing zip code is enough information to determine which NPA-NXXs are in their geographic area - making telephone number assignments easy and accurate.

Zip-Link also helps service providers to determine service availability for new subscribers without an existing phone number. Based on the customer’s zip code and a list of NPA-NXXs from which you offer service, you can determine whether a new customer is within your service footprint before processing their service order.

Finally, software applications storing address and phone number information need Zip-Link to determine whether provided data may be invalid. If the zip code and area code/prefix provided are not matched in Zip-Link, you may have an invalid entry.

Zip-Link was created by geographically mapping zip code boundaries and rate center boundaries, and then determining where the data points overlay each other. Zip-Link provides the data on those cross sections in an easy to use format, enabling various opportunities to cross-reference other demographic and geographic resources. With Zip-Link, no more missing links! A world of data points is open to you for analysis.

Contact Kimberly Russo (krusso@telecomdb.com or 800-433-6181 x7103) today for more details.