DETERMINING TELECOMMUNICATION SUBSCRIBER METRICS

摘要

Information associated with a communication is gathered at a switching point during the routing process to determine subscriber metric information associated with an active service identifier. The information relates to the originator of the communication and the target. The information is compared to a provider database to determine a carrier originally associated with the active service identifier. The information is then compared to a porting database to determine if the active service identifier was ported, and if so, to which carrier the active service identifier was ported. A determination can then be made regarding which carrier is associated with the active service identifier. The data may be aggregated for a large amount of switched communications, representing a large amount of active service identifiers for a given market. Thus, a number of subscribers for a given carrier in a given market may be determined.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a plurality of records, each of which is associated with a switching point in a network in response to a request for a routed service associated with a source telephone number identified in the record, wherein each record comprises a recipient telephone number; determining an associated service provider for each recipient telephone number by comparing each recipient telephone number to:
information indicating that a respective telephone number is assigned to a respective service provider, andinformation associated with local number portability; and determining a number of recipient telephone numbers for a first service provider by aggregating each recipient telephone number associated with the first carrier.