alexkinch

Not sure what the plans are for the pricing plans and packages - Stackpoint's entry level of $50/month is quite different from than Netapp's "Only pay for what you use:Just add 20% to the hourly cost of your compute instance per month" (from here: https://cloud.netapp.com/kubernetes-service)

See my answer here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300690 - about why you're getting O2 for a Giffgaff number (Giffgaff is an O2 MVNO, and owned by O2's parent Telefonica as it happens).

Re: a Twilio UK landline number coming up as JT, as you're probably looking at the results of a SS7-MAP command that returns the SMS routing info for a particular number, in this case it's likely that JT look after the SMS side of that number (routing for voice and SMS and the networks themselves are generally quite separate).

Re: 1, Sainsbury's Mobile is an MVNO on Vodafone, and Virgin is an MVNO on EE, so strictly speaking that's correct (see my previous answer here about how it's probably getting this info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300690)

Re: 2, the data is available from Ofcom - maybe if you ask Twilio nicely they'll load it :)

For mobile numbers it sounds like this uses an HLR Lookup service, which will (in simple terms) return the Mobile Country Code (MCC) and Mobile Network Code (MNC) - e.g. MCC 234 is the UK, and MNC 20 is Hutchinson 3G (aka 3). If you were to check the number itself against a numbering plan (for the UK http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm is a useful tool) it'd show the original operator.

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Thanks Steve, agreed - just unfortunate that I only found your service earlier today, and when I went back the site was down :( Would having a custom domain have got around the problem, or is that a CNAME to your .io domain?

In some sort of irony, statuspage.io is down. Was looking at their offering about an hour ago and thinking of taking it for a spin, but now I'm not so sure...