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Would you like to know a telephone caller's line type and geographic location before you pickup the phone? We thought so!

According to leading industry experts, the most important information in your CRM system is a contact’s telephone number. But how do you know if the telephone numbers you are capturing are valid without calling every single one? In this age of online sales and marketing efforts, telephone validation, verification, and correction has become a lost art.

DOTS Phone Exchange is a hosted, programmable Web Service that can instantly identify all valid NPA/NXX+1 telephone number combinations in the United States and Canada. This means that you can verify information for virtually every telephone number throughout the two regions (even if it is unlisted)...and all for as low as 1 ¼ cents per lookup.

With DOTS Phone Exchange^SM you can:

• Determine if a telephone number is valid at the point-of-entry.
• Determine the telephone line type (landline, wireless, or VoIP).
• Establish geographic location information (carrier, city, state, latitude, longitude).

<?php $wsdlUrl = "http://trial.serviceobjects.com/pe/PhoneExchange.asmx?WSDL"; $PhoneNumbers = "8059631700"; $LicenseKey = "ENTER YOUR LICENSE KEY HERE"; $Client = new SoapClient($wsdlUrl); $Response = $Client->GetExchangeInfo_V2(array("PhoneNumbers" => $PhoneNumbers, "LicenseKey" => $LicenseKey)); $ResultNode = $Response->GetExchangeInfo_V2Result->Providers->Provider; if (isset($ResultNode)) {   if (!isset($ResultNode->Error)) {     foreach($ResultNode as $var=>$value)       echo "$var: $value ";   } else {     foreach($ResultNode->Error as $node) echo $node." ";   } } else echo "No Response Found"; ?>

To download the full PHP 5 sample code, or to view our Sample Code Library, click here.

DOTS Phone Exchange is a multi-database Web Service designed to identify which NPAs/NXXs are valid and assigned to a given geographic region, carrier, and telephone line type. DOTS Phone Exchange validates telephone numbers by cross-referencing the city, state, area code, and latitude and longitude against U.S. and Canadian telephone numbers that are known to be valid.

The input for DOTS Phone Exchange is the telephone number of a given residential or business prospect. This telephone data is run through a Web Service interface where it is validated, and then returned in real-time or as a batch process.

Additional features of DOTS Phone Exchange include:

• Return data delivered in hundredths of a millisecond.
• Telephone data updated monthly.
• The ability to process multiple telephone numbers at once.
• Real-time XML service. Batch service also available.
• Telephone data compiled from over 2,600 U.S. and Canadian telephone service providers.

Users of DOTS Phone Exchange can derive clarity and additional insight into any contact management process by comparing customer provided information against DOTS Phone Exchange validated information.

Standard integration of DOTS Phone Exchange is very straight-forward and takes a developer only hours to test and implement. Almost any language can integrate with DOTS Web Services, allowing users to program their applications in the language of their choice. Service Objects also offers sample code for most programming environments, including Coldfusion, Java, C#, and PHP. Service Objects' expert developers are ready to help with your integration process and can even write custom sample code for you, if it’s not already in our Sample Code Library.

For only pennies per transaction, DOTS Phone Exchange provides users with the fastest and most accurate telephone number validation tool available. Furthermore, the service is compatible with all Internet standards, so you can integrate telephone number validation into your company without making any costly changes to your business processes.