Method and system for routing of inbound toll-free communications

A feature server of a telecommunications network comprising:

• a network interface to receive a plurality of incoming communications from a plurality of telecommunication networks, at least one incoming communication, received from an end office, comprising a dialed telephone number associated with a client of the telecommunications network and without a carrier identification code (CIC);
• a processing device to:
• obtain the dialed telephone number from the incoming communication;
• request information from a CIC data source associated with the dialed telephone number;
• receive a data schema associated with the dialed telephone number;
• analyze the data schema;
• determine a CIC to associate with the dialed telephone number based on the analysis of the data schema, wherein the determined CIC is determined based on two or more factors in the data schema;
• associate the determined CIC with the at least one incoming communication, and wherein the processing device is in communication with a routing table database comprising a correlation of the dialed telephone number and the determined CIC from the at least one incoming communication with a destination device of the client of the telecommunication network;
• identify the destination device of the client of the telecommunication network based at least on the dialed telephone number and the determined CIC;
• and
• a transmitting component for transmitting the at least one incoming communication to the destination device of the client of the telecommunication network through at least one of the plurality of telecommunication networks.

A method for operating a telecommunications network, the method comprising:

• receiving an incoming communication, from an end office, at an application server for receiving communications from a plurality of telecommunication networks, the incoming communication comprising a dialed telephone number associated with a client of the telecommunications network and without a carrier identification code (CIC);
• obtaining the dialed telephone number from the incoming communication;
• requesting information from a CIC data source associated with the dialed telephone number;
• receiving a data schema associated with the dialed telephone number, wherein the data schema includes two or more CICs associated with the dialed telephone number;
• analyzing the data schema;
• determining one of the two or more CICs to associate with the dialed telephone number based on the analysis of two or more factors in the data schema;
• associating the determined CIC with the incoming communication;
• identifying a destination device of the client of the telecommunication network based at least on the dialed telephone number and the determined CIC, the destination device in communication with at least one of the plurality of telecommunication networks;
• and
• transmitting the incoming communication to the destination device of the client of the telecommunication network through the at least one of the plurality of telecommunication networks.