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Identifying mobile networks?
Is there a way that you can tell what mobile network is using from their phone number e.g whether they are. Orange, T-Mobile, O2 or Vodaphone is there a program that you could put a numer into and it tells you?
Thanks for your help
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From my experience, 079's are Orange/T-Mobile, and 078's are Vodafone/o2.
That's all I know i'm afraid. |
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You need the UK Mobile Phone Code Locator
http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/tci/locator.shtml However remember that with number portability the network the number was originally on doesn't mean that this the network that the number is on now. The only way you will know that is when you get the bill! You can also look at Oftel's numbering page here: http://www.oftel.gov.uk/ind_info/numbering/ That tells you some more information about how the numbers have been allocated. Simon. |
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Thanks for your help that was just the sort of thing I was looking for.
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OFTEL are useless with this portability lark.
One of the things about the British phone system is that you should be able to tell what a call will cost (in terms of fixed or ppm price) before you make it. I complained about a call I made to a same network range number that had been ported, and was told that the same rules do not apply to mobiles, and that they could see how this could cause misunderstandings, but they couldn't do anything about it... |
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Want to know something interesting? Last month, BT were given a Mobile Network Code number by Oftel -- maybe they're looking to get back into the mobile business, having sold off O2?
Even stranger though, is that fact that Railtrack own two of these MNCs, the same as Vodafone and Orange, and Virgin don't seem to have one at all (unless they're owned by Inquam Telecom, of course). |
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BT have been running BT Mobile Sense as its called for months now, I've seen billboard and net ad's all over the place. They aren't actually a network, just a VPN.
Heres a link to their website, part of the BT website. |
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