detect mobile operator by number

Question

Hi! Where can i find database, phone numbers masks for mobile operators, or just web site, where i can detect mobile operator by phone number?

Answer 1

Not in Australia - mobile numbers might be handed to operators in blocks, but they belong to the user and can be ported to any carrier the user chooses to use.

Of course, there are still ways to look up an individual number and find out which carrier it's on - there have to be, in order for the call to be routed to the appropriate carrier. You're not going to get access to that without investing a significant amount of money to set up a telco though.

All of this is almost certainly irrelevant to you as you didn't say you were specifically interested in australia; but then again, you didn't say you weren't interested in Australia either.

Answer 2

In the UK, you cannot do this. Numbers can be ported from operator to operator, it's all very fluid. Each operator will know how to route these numbers between themselves, but they don't expose that routing to outside parties.

Answer 3

I know this out of date, but you would need to do something called a HLR lookup via a sms gateway, InfoBip for example.