BT OSIS

BT OSIS is a centrally administered telephone directory containing the names, addresses and telephone numbers of individuals and businesses. Data8 offer services using this data, such as telephone appending whereby we can search BT OSIS to find new or additional telephone numbers for your records. The database is the only official directory of telephone numbers in the UK and is owned and administered by BT Wholesale Directory Solutions (BTWDS). It is the same data as is used by the printed telephone directories and by the 118 directory operators.

When an individual requests a new telephone line and agrees to be listed in the telephone directory, the data will be entered into BT OSIS, making the BT OSIS database very accurate and up-to-date.

Data8 are licensed by BTWDS to hold the BT OSIS database and we can offer a variety of data cleansing services and technology to enable you to append appropriate telephone numbers to names and addresses that you already hold. Our new business data researchers use the data to indentify new businesses setting up across the UK.

There are 3 different types of records that BT OSIS that we hold:

• Directory Entry (DE) - these are records that are listed in the printed phone books and held by the 118 operators. We can provide telephone number details for DE records.
• Directory Query Restricted (DQR) - these records are not in the printed phone books but they are available on 118 services if you can uniquely identify them. We hold the DQR telephone numbers and can match them to your records when we make a unique match.
• Ex-Directory (XD) - If we can uniquely match your a name and address to an XD record we are able to confirm it as Ex-Directory.

Your Details on OSIS

Data8 is a licensed reseller of the BT OSIS database but does not own or control this database. If you wish to remove or amend your personal details in the database then the only way that this can be achieved is to talk to your telephone provider: usually a company such as BT, TalkTalk or Virgin - the company that you pay your telephone bill to.

Details

BT OSIS Residential Database

BT OSIS Business Database

Data8 Services using BT OSIS

Telephone Appending - BT OSIS is used within our telephone number append service to append telephone numbers or XD statuses to your data. You can get a free data quality audit to find out how many of your records can have telephone numbers appended by using our online data cleansing service Data8online.

Telephone Number Capture Web Service API - If you have a full name and address we can find any matching record on BT OSIS and provide it back to you real-time for you to integrate into you business processes.

Telephone Directory Search Web Service API - You can make directory style searches against BT OSIS where you only have approximate name and address details by using the real-time web service api.

New Business Data - Using BT OSIS data, our research team identifies new businesses setting up in the UK, they then add value by contacting the companies and adding additional data, providing our clients with the most complete and accurate lists of all new businesses.