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In 2007 Bj\u00f8rn Birkedal phoned me. That was not in itself unexpected since we spend a lot of time in his basement in Faxe, Denmark, developing a system for our employer “Powerline”. Powerline was a small ISP that needed a system that could integrate with the National Number Portability facility “OCH”. All operators on the telecom marked was obliged to have their own de-central system to hold the entire number plan for all telephone numbers, Fixed as well as Mobile.<\/p>\n
We managed to code this in PERL with a MySQL backend and the mathematical core was made using C – Yes, ANSI C as\u00a0Dennis Ritchie<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Brian Kernighan<\/a>\u00a0revised it to in 1988 – no fancy “plus-plus” was needed and we just used the hammer and screwdrivers we knew how to use.<\/p>\n Surprisingly enough, it actually worked flawless. I was not the fast coder in PERL so my role became the “System Designer” and we designed the entire system based on the integration documentation provided by OCH and a lot of bright ideas.<\/p>\n The reason he called, was that apparently the people at OCH “leaked” the information of our systems existence and a telco needed such a system.<\/p>\n So we had a product but no framework to sell this in. We decided to create a common company “Dateltek” and to commit full time on trying to fine tune the system – and of cause sell it.<\/p>\n We ended up with a totally reprogrammed system with the core still in C (I have learned that Bj\u00f8rn now reprogrammed it in C++) and the entire frontend and middleware was written in PHP. No less than 30 Telecom actually bought this system – Lebara, LycaMobile and many others still use it to conquer new customers keeping their number while switching provider.<\/p>\n My vision became international. Bj\u00f8rn did not share this vision so after presenting a solution to work in Serbia, Georgia, Nigeria, Kenya and other exotic countries, we decided to divide our efforts and split up.<\/p>\n Bj\u00f8rn is still handling the Danish Telecom customers and after fighting in several years, I concluded that it was really difficult to enter the international marked as a small Danish provider. The amounts to be deposited in guarantees of implementation was in millions of dollars. I still hold all rights to use and sell this fantastic system but so far without success.<\/p>\n Onwards… – another phonecall, another job at ICOM<\/a> who promised to join effort in selling my solution merged with their “MVNO in a box” solution internationally. That also never happened as the money ran out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2007 Bj\u00f8rn Birkedal phoned me. That was not in itself unexpected since we spend a lot of time in his basement in Faxe, Denmark, developing a system for our employer “Powerline”. Powerline was a small ISP that needed a system that could integrate with the National Number Portability facility “OCH”. All operators on the Read more about Dateltek – Telephone Number Portability<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterit.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}