Find the network of a mobile number...

s43

Hi,

Is it possible to find out which mobile number belongs to a specific network? By any website/software?

Thanks

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Reply 1

omicronlyrae

i doubt it, but it could be possible. seems a bit far fetched, though.

Reply 2

*Mike*

Unlikely because you can transfer your number between networks

Reply 3

mangomaz

Not sure if theres a systematic way... a while ago you could kind of tell what numbers belonged to which network (Orange was usually 0784... or something I cant remember) but since then people have changed networks a lot and kept their old numbers. Hmmmmmmm......

Reply 4

Minardi

You can tell orange number by the fact they give one long ring at the start, But sadly thats not diagnostic any more because 3 phones using the 2G orange network do this too. Boo Hoo. If you call it and it goes to voicemail though, and if you've called enough voicemails to know, you can tell which network it is from the sound of the woman who does it.

Sad eh?

Minardi

Reply 5

BabyGirl

ICSTIS
http://www.icstis.org.uk/
but if someone's changed their network it isn't updated..

Reply 6

s43

There must be a website somewhere out there, where you can do this....

Reply 7

omicronlyrae

s43

There must be a website somewhere out there, where you can do this....

with all the phone prefixes linked to the networks? unlikely, as every network has many different prefixes.

Reply 8

omicronlyrae

wesetters

I don't know if this works in the UK, but here you can tell from the beginning or the number - for example, my phone number starts 066, which means it's on the bouygues telecom network.

nah that doesn't work here, all mobile numbers begin with 07and then have 3 other numbers, but the same network can have 3 different numbers there so it's impossible to tell who's on one network alone let alone compare them all.

Reply 9

gerry

Some tmobile prefixes I can remember are 07983, 07962 and 07852. Cant really tell for sure now though as people can move their number across networks.

Reply 10

snu

Yeah, number porting has totally broken any ability to tell. ICSTIS' lookup says my number is Vodafone, but it's actually T-Mobile.

Reply 11

Geerththanan

http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/tci/locator.shtml

:smile:

Reply 12

snu

G??RTHAN

http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/tci/locator.shtml

:smile:

Provides no better info than ICSTIS' lookup...

Reply 13

Minardi

It told me my number is on T-Mob. Wrong. I started on Vrigin (probably why it says T-Mob). Ive then been on Vodafone, O2 and now 3. (Voda coverage is woeful, by the way).

Reply 14

omicronlyrae

i'm on virgin and that says t-mobile.

it fails.

Reply 15

vector

Minardi

If you call it and it goes to voicemail though, and if you've called enough voicemails to know, you can tell which network it is from the sound of the woman who does it.

Minardi

The orange one also says 'Welcome to the orange answer phone'

:p:

Reply 16

Minardi

Not if someone records their own message :wink:

. Then you just get the orange woman saying "please leave a message after the tone". I call alot of mobiles... its sad I know what they all sound like...!

Min

Reply 17

vector

Hadn't thought of that :rolleyes:

Reply 18

s43

Good ideas people, keep them coming.

Thanks

Reply 19

Clubber Lang

As has beenn said - it was possible to get it pretty much right before people coudl easily port their nubmers around - now its near impossible as someone on here has demonstrated by moving their number aorund a lot.

The Orange thing does work tho because they have one logn ring followed by standard shorter ones.