alexkinch

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by alexkinch 8y ago
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 inst
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Stackpoint.io Joins the NetApp Family(blog.stackpoint.io)
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by alexkinch 12y ago
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 l
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by alexkinch 12y ago
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.co
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by alexkinch 12y ago
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
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by alexkinch 12y ago
Ziron - Junior Linux Systems Administrator (Office based), near Oxford, UK Ziron is building a new generation of telecommunications operator, where APIs are at the heart of the service – and not just an afterthought. As part of our rapid ex
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by alexkinch 13y ago
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?
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by alexkinch 13y ago
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...