BT OSIS
BT OSIS is a centrally administered telephone directory containing the names, addresses
and telephone numbers of individuals and businesses. 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.
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.
Details
BT OSIS Residential Database
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6 days a week
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03 February 2012
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24,124,344
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BT OSIS Business Database
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6 days a week
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03 February 2012
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2,624,845
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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.
