[Cryptography] "Spy Agencies Urge Caution on Phone Deal"

=JeffH Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com
Wed Oct 1 09:57:29 EDT 2014


 > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:
 >> a special network/database - oddly never named in the article - that 
"rout[es] millions of phone calls and text messages in the United States". 
Apparently this was a system created back in the late 1990's to implement 
number portability.
 >
 > It's the "Number Portability Administration Center":
 > https://www.npac.com/

see also...

North American Numbering Plan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan


North American Numbering Plan Administration: NANPA
http://www.nanpa.com/about_us/abt_nanp.html





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