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HLR lookup - Home Location Register


Home Location Register is a service that ViaNett provides to its customers to determine the home location of the mobile subscribers. It also used to find what country the subscriber is roaming in right now.


What is HLR?

HLR Lookup is a way to determine the home network of a mobile subscriber. HLR is also used to find what country the subscriber is roaming in right now.

This technology is normally used together with SMS Delivery and SMS Billing to check what network you should send the messages to. It can also be used to check if a subscriber is reachable or if the user is absent (i.e. has turned off the phone).

Service

The Network Query is a service in regards to Mobile Number Portability (MNP), enabling the identification to which network a mobile phone number (MSISDN) belongs to. This service is also referred to as "IMSI-lookup", "Network Look up Service" or "HLR Lookup". Available for more than 403 networks, providing visibility of ported numbers for 126 countries.

This service is available for all customers. This is an international service, and is not limited to a specific countries.

HLR Coverage

GW62

Average query time: 0,5 seconds
Capacity: 8 per second
Current location: Supported
Real time interface, same coverage as GW66

GW66

Average query time: 2 seconds
Capacity: 8 per second
Current location: Supported

GW67

Average query time: 2 seconds
Capacity: 15 per second
Current location: Not supported

GW69

Average query time: 5 seconds
Capacity: 5 per second
Current location: Supported

HLR features

GW MCC MNC LocationMCC  LocationMNC IMSI MSC  Remarks
 55

Yes

Yes

Yes

 Yes

 

 

AbsentUser in real time (*)
 57

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Yes

 
 58

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Yes

 Italy not supported
 59

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Yes

 
 61

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 

 Norway only
 63

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 Also applies to HLR webservice
 65

Yes

Yes

 

 

Yes

Yes

 
 67

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

(*) By request, it is possible to implement an asynchronous notification immediately when the handset is turned on.

Prices and conditions

The price is EUR 0.045 per query without a volume agreement. Volume agreements can be made on these conditons:

Alternative 1:
Establishment fee: 0
Monthly fee: 0
Minimum monthly bill: EUR 125 (NOK 1000)
Price per query: EUR 0.025 (NOK 0.19)

Alternative 2:
Establishment fee: 0
Monthly fee: 0
Minimum monthly bill: EUR 375 (NOK 3000)
Price per query: EUR 0.0125 (NOK 0.10)

Please contact ViaNett customer service for special price on higher volumes. We can offer HLR lookups from EUR 0.006, depending on volumes.

For more information please contact:

Sales:
Technical Support:    
sales@vianett.no
smssupport@vianett.no

Contact

Sales:
Support:
Phone:
sales@vianett.com
smssupport@vianett.com
+47 69 20 69 20


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