Phone Exchange API

DOTS Phone Exchange

Verifies the Telco Exchange of any North American Number

DOTS Phone Exchange instantly recognizes whether a telephone number is valid and acceptable by verifying the first seven digits (NPA/NXX+1) of any telephone number combination in the North American Numbering Plan.


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Overview

What is it?

DOTS Phone Exchange (PE) is a programmable XML Web Service hosted by Service Objects which allows you to improve the quality of your contact database by eliminating invalid telephone numbers at the point-of-entry. DOTS Phone ExchangeSM allows you to integrate telephone information into your Web site, CRM database, and other business contact dependent processes.

DOTS Phone Exchange can instantly recognize whether a telephone number is valid and acceptable by verifying the first seven digits (NPA/NXX+1) of any telephone number combination in the North American Numbering Plan.

 
Features & Benefits

FEATURES


  • Resolves telephone numbers to 1,000-number blocks
  • Returns line type (landline, wireless, or VoIP)
  • Returns telephone service provider and its geographic information such as: carrier name, city, state and latitude & longitude
  • Processes multiple telephone numbers at once
  • Telephone data updated monthly with data from North American Numbering Plan Administration and the Canadian Numbering Administrator
  • Supplemental exchange data compiled from over 2,600 U.S. and Canadian telephone service providers

BENEFITS


Automatically and immediately verify the accuracy of your sales prospects or business leads before establishing contact, updating a CRM system, or completing a transaction. Identify the best leads, eliminate bad contacts, prevent fraudulent transactions, and improve customer conversion rates.
 
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  • Fully redundant, load-balanced hardware and Internet connections
  • SSL with a minimum of 128-bit symmetric encryption and a 1024-bit authenticated key agreement

Availability

  • Real-time XML Web service interface
  • Service Level Agreement of 99.995%
  • Redundant switches, firewalls, load balancers, servers, and backup systems ensure high availability
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Developer's Tools

EXAMPLES & RESOURCES


Developer's Guide

View Developer's Guide. It covers PE integration, Web service structure, request types and other pertinent information that will help you be successful in understanding and implementing this service.

Service Path

See the service path for PE and access several samples of SOAP requests and responses.

XML WSDL

See XML WSDL for descriptions of PE data types, details, interface, location and protocol.