056 code lookup

A friend of mine was calling an 056 number with her VOIPcheap account. She
was getting a lot of echo and so I thought there must be another way... Is
there a way to find out which VSP is behind the VOIP number? I looked it up
at e164.org and there was nothing listed, and magsys.co.uk's codelook just
said 'VOIP'. With PSTN numbers it at least tells you which company owns the
number block. Is it possible to find this out for 056 numbers?

FWIW the number began 0560 196....

Cheers,
Theo

Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in
news:jfo*IH5Yr@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk:

> A friend of mine was calling an 056 number with her VOIPcheap account.
> She was getting a lot of echo and so I thought there must be another
> way... Is there a way to find out which VSP is behind the VOIP
> number? I looked it up at e164.org and there was nothing listed, and
> magsys.co.uk's codelook just said 'VOIP'. With PSTN numbers it at
> least tells you which company owns the number block. Is it possible
> to find this out for 056 numbers?
>
> FWIW the number began 0560 196....
>
> Cheers,
> Theo
>

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/ioi...istered/s5.xls

5601 96 Allocated BT 10 Digit Numbers 11/2006

BT owns the number block.

Regards
Peter

PeterW <pw1@removethis.whisker.adsl24.co.uk> wrote:
> 5601 96 Allocated BT 10 Digit Numbers 11/2006
>
> BT owns the number block.

Thanks, I suspected as much. Useful table to know about...

Theo

On 11 5 , 8 19 , Theo Markettos <theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:
> A friend of mine was calling an 056 number with her VOIPcheap account. She
> was getting a lot of echo and so I thought there must be another way... Is
> there a way to find out which VSP is behind the VOIP number? I looked it up
> at e164.org and there was nothing listed, and magsys.co.uk's codelook just
> said 'VOIP'. With PSTN numbers it at least tells you which company owns the
> number block. Is it possible to find this out for 056 numbers?
>
> FWIW the number began 0560 196....

hi

This telephone number just means the termination provider. It could
even be a fake number that generated from the softswitch. If you are
lucky, you could meet those number's user again.

leon

Leon@telecomchinasourcing.com