Number portability has encouraged competition in mobile markets by allowing subscribers to keep their numbers when they change service providers. However, number portability requires intelligence beyond the code system to route and rate calls correctly. Misrouted calls can incur transit penalties, increase termination costs and degrade call quality.


Xchange Route offers a flexible suite of Portability Solutions for mobile carriers to implement number portability correction on international traffic, delivered to fit their technical capabilities and business models. Carriers using Xchange Route solutions experience more efficient routing and a reduction in minute costs.

✫ Optimize termination quality in real time, on a call-by-call basis.
✫ Access true per-minute rates instead of estimated or blended rates.
✫ Eliminate transit and misrouting penalty charges.
✫ Identify and stop losses from "cherry picking" and "tromboning".
✫ Direct network-corrected calls to optimal routes.
✫ Streamline operational and administrative costs while meeting compliance requirements.


Managed Minutes with AssuredAxcesssm Quality:
Carriers route traffic to Xchange Route on a designated AssuredAxcess Quality trunk group. Xchange Route queries its routing intelligence database to identify the correct destination in real time and completes the call on the carrier's behalf, passing back cost savings and quality enhancements with prices that reflect the true rate for calls correctly identified and routed. Managed Minutes is optimized for carriers with limited switch capabilities. Learn more about AssuredAxcess.


Control Call Routing with Query Services:
With Query Services, carriers maintain control over call routing. Xchange Route offers two types of query services: a cost-effective on-demand hosted solution for customers with INAP capabilities; and a call-by-call switch routing solution. Xchange Route's Query Services are accessible via standard protocols and can be adapted to meet most customer network configurations.


Maximum Routing Control:

Xchange Route's Hosted Query-Based Service is for carriers with advanced switching architecture that allows INAP or SIP queries against external databases. Hosted Query Service provides the highest level of control over call routing.


Xchange Route's Switch-Based Query Service is for carriers that lack the ability to query external network intelligence databases from their international switches. Switch-Based Query Service provides the same level of control over call routing as Xchange Route's hosted solution, but with an additional switching layer.


Cost Savings Over Codes-Based Rates:
The chart below illustrates a cost comparison between terminating via a Tier-1 PTT with and without Xchange Route's Portability Solutions. Overall savings were 4% - a significant result when compared to normal international margins.