Discern service provider based on phone number - Possible?
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:31 pm
Hi,
I'm messing around with sending text messages to cell phones using the PHP mail function. I can send a message to mine because I know my own carrier. My question now is, if someone were to provide their phone number to get text messages, is there any logical way to decode that telephone number and figure out who the carrier? Do certain companies use certain prefixes? I really don't want to ask people who their carrier is, seeing as how it doesn't pertain to the other stuff that I'm asking.
Also, what else, if anything, can we figure out about a phone number? (ex. Cell Phone vs. Land Line?)
Thanks,
Danny
I'm messing around with sending text messages to cell phones using the PHP mail function. I can send a message to mine because I know my own carrier. My question now is, if someone were to provide their phone number to get text messages, is there any logical way to decode that telephone number and figure out who the carrier? Do certain companies use certain prefixes? I really don't want to ask people who their carrier is, seeing as how it doesn't pertain to the other stuff that I'm asking.
Also, what else, if anything, can we figure out about a phone number? (ex. Cell Phone vs. Land Line?)
Thanks,
Danny