A system for providing termination information for an international
telephone number includes a centralized database of terminating
characteristics. The system may also include request processing logic
that receives an international telephone number from a user. In response
to receiving the telephone number, the request processing logic may
automatically query the centralized database to obtain information that
indicates whether the telephone number uses wireless termination. In
response to obtaining the information from the centralized database, the
request processing logic may automatically transmit to the user a
response that indicates whether the telephone number uses wireless
termination. The system may also include a database engine that uses a
tree structure of linked nodes to perform a longest matching prefix
search on the telephone number in response to the request processing
logic querying the centralized database.