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1 Running ThemWi system sw with fake NANP numbers
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4 As outlined in Use-outside-USA article, there is a possibility that some people
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5 may potentially be interested in running our software outside of USA - yet
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6 without any intention of connecting to their own country's public telephone
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7 network. Given that ThemWi system sw was written for the primary purpose of
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8 making our Osmocom-based GSM network function as a full-fledged member of USA
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9 PSTN and USA SMS network, with full interconnection, it is not clear to this
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10 Mother why someone would be interested in our sw without such interconnection
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11 as their primary goal. Porting our sw from USA PSTN to national telephone
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12 networks of other countries would certainly be a laudable goal, but operation
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13 without any national PSTN interconnection at all, not so much - what is the
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14 point then?
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16 It is possible, however, that some people may be interested in auxiliary debug
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17 or test functions of ThemWi, such as single-leg GSM test calls (MT with
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18 themwi-test-mtc, MO with test sink numbers) - or perhaps they may be interested
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19 in our implementation of GSUP-based SMSC. It is also possible that some people
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20 may wish to operate toy networks, without money-costing and politically-
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21 complicated interconnection with their national PSTN, but may still be
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22 interested in hobby-level peering interconnection with other hobbyist or
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23 community networks.
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25 To address such strange-seeming use cases, ThemWi system sw supports the option
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26 of operating with fake NANP numbers instead of real ones. Real NANP numbers are
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27 those which one gets (rents for a small amount of money) from a PSTN-via-SIP
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28 connectivity provider such as BulkVS - but those companies typically require
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29 the customer to have physical and/or legal presence in USA or Canada, in order
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30 to connect to USA or Canadian PSTN, even if that connection is made over public
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31 Internet. Every real NANP number geolocates to some real location in USA,
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32 Canada or one of the many smaller NANP countries. Fake NANP numbers, OTOH, are
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33 completely made up, and do not correspond to any real location anywhere in North
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34 America - but they superficially mimic the structure of North American Numbering
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35 Plan, allowing software written for NANP to be used without major changes.
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37 NANP rules require every telephone number (TN) to take the form of NXX-NXX-XXXX,
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38 where N is any digit in [2-9] set and X is any digit in [0-9] set. The first
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39 NXX group is also called NPA or simply "area code" (NPA stands for Numbering
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40 Plan Area), and the second NXX group is called the exchange; the first 6 digits
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41 taken together, typically written as NPA-NXX, are also called the prefix.
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42 Furthermore, neither of the two NXX groups (neither NPA nor exchange) is allowed
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43 to be N11 - these codes are reserved for emergency and other special numbers.
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45 ThemWi system sw requires all presenting-as-NANP numbers to follow the rules
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46 listed above, including fake NANP numbers - but the diff that sets fake NANP
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47 numbers apart is the middle digit of NPA code. Per official NANP rules, this
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48 middle digit can never equal 9 - thus NPA codes of form N9X (290-299, 390-399,
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49 ..., 990-999) specifically signify fake NANP numbers.
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51 Fake NANP numbers beginning with N9X are allowed in all contexts where real NANP
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52 numbers are ordinarily expected. There is only one place in the current code
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53 base where they are treated specially, and that one place is the routing code
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54 in themwi-sip-out. As currently implemented, themwi-sip-out will route a call
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55 addressed to a number beginning with +1N9X only if there is an explicit route
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56 defined for that specific 1N9X prefix, i.e., a route with a prefix length of 4
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57 or more digits. If there is no such explicit route, and the only match is
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58 either the main +1 route (for all of regular NANP) or the global E.164 default
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59 route, the call is rejected with GSM48_CC_CAUSE_NO_ROUTE - the idea is that we
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60 should never send calls to such fake NANP numbers to real PSTN-via-SIP
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61 connectivity providers.
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63 Configuring your number database with fake NANP
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64 ===============================================
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66 No matter what kind of numbers you end up using, you have to create a database
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67 of locally owned numbers - this local number database is always a required item
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68 for ThemWi system sw to work, as explained in more detail in Number-database
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69 article. If you are going to operate with fake NANP numbers, the recommended
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70 way to populate your number database is as follows:
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71
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72 prefix N9X-NXX allow-abbrev
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74 suffix XXXX gsm-sub
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75 suffix XXXX gsm-sub
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76 ...
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78 For N9X-NXX part in the prefix line, pick some prefix that follows these
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79 numerical rules (80 possibilities for N9X and 800 possibilities for NXX, for a
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80 total of 64000 possible fake-NANP prefixes), and each XXXX in a suffix line is
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81 a 4-digit extension number you are defining for use by your local GSM
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82 subscribers. You will then need to enter each MSISDN into OsmoHLR as 11-digit
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83 1N9XNXXXXXX, just as if it were a real, globally-routable E.164 number in the
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84 North American Numbering Plan - but having 'allow-abbrev' modifier included on
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85 the prefix line will allow you to dial 4-digit extensions instead of full
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86 fake-NANP numbers for internal calls.
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87
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88 The other alternative of using ITNs (see Local-short-numbers article) is also
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89 possible, but not recommended: themwi-sip-in and themwi-sip-out require NANP or
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90 NANP-looking numbers, not ITNs, hence a network instance that uses only ITNs
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91 will have no ability to gateway to any other networks, not even hobbyist
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92 non-PSTN kind.
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93
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94 Interconnection among hobbyist or community networks
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95 ====================================================
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96
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97 The real Themyscira Wireless network, operating with real NANP numbers in the
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98 region of San Diego county, California, USA, is open to making peering-type
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99 interconnections with other hobbyist or community networks, including those
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100 hobbyist/community networks whose operators choose to not connect to any PSTN
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101 themselves and operate with fake E.164 numbers instead. If you do operate with
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102 fake E.164 numbers instead of real ones (real E.164 numbers are those that were
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103 legitimately issued to you by your country's telephone numbering plan authority
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104 or its subdelegates; any others are fake), the requisite condition for peering
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105 interconnection with real ThemWi is that your fake E.164 numbers are guaranteed
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106 to never conflict with any real ones. This condition is absolute with no
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107 exceptions - as a real mobile telephone network participating in global, fully
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108 interconnected worldwide PSTN, Themyscira Wireless MUST route every real E.164
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109 number to its rightful national or international destination, no exceptions
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110 allowed.
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111
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112 Fake NANP numbers as described in this article satisfy the requirement of not
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113 conflicting with any possible real E.164 numbers, hence if you set up your own
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114 instance of ThemWi system sw using such fake NANP numbers, you will be eligible
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115 for peering interconnection with Themyscira Wireless, the real ThemWi. If you
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116 wish to be able to receive calls from us, you will need to run themwi-sip-in on
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117 a server with some public-facing static IP address (and be willing to accept SIP
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118 calls from anywhere in the world, addressing your selected range of fake-NANP
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119 numbers), and we will create a routing entry in our themwi-sip-out config,
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120 routing your +1N9X prefix to your server. In the other direction, if you wish
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121 to send calls to us, simply send them to sip.sandiego2g.org - as long as the
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122 called E.164 number is one of ours, we accept calls from anywhere on the public
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123 Internet, not just from our official USA PSTN connectivity provider.