NANPA and telco names, was Re: Verizon/Quest merger cell list list

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:42:17 -0700, Joseph <JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>listed. If they want to be listed as Bell Atlantic they are every bit
>within their rights to do so. If they want to be listed as Verizon
>they can as well. I do not know the reason why the different
>companies are listed the way they are but the fact remains that they
>are listed that way. T-Mobile may be listed as Omnipoint, Aerial, or
<snip>

It's not because they "want" to be listed a certain way; it's because
most phone companies are a jumble of various subsidaries and legal
entities, and whatever legal entity requests the number is what's
listed on the NANPA files, even if the name doesn't at all resemble
the "familiar" name of the company. (For instance, unless you
research it, you'd never know that "Atlanta Athens MSA LP" is really
Cingular, or that "Concord Telephone Exchange" near Knoxville, TN is
really TDS Telecom.)

I wrote a script (~500 lines of sed code) that translates the "legal"
name of telcos in the NANPA records to more familiar names; you can
download my version, which has the "familiar" names, at:

http://www.roamer1.org/downloads/nanpa-clean.zip

As for the original request re: Qwest cell sites, given that Qwest
Wireless was (and still is) exclusively 1900, such data is going to be
hard to find and minimal at best.

-SC
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