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Finding the phone company of a cell phone number?

I have an application where people can give a phone number and it will send SMS texts to the phone number through EMail-SMS gateways. For this to work however, I need the phone company of the given number so that I send the email to the proper SMS gateway. I've seen some services that allow you to look up this information, but none of them in the form of a web service or database.

For instance, http://tnid.us provides such a service. Example output from my phone number:

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Where do they get the "Current Telephone Company" information for each number. Is this freely available information? Is there a database or some sort of web service I can use to get that information for a given cell phone number?

Solution

  • Did you look just slightly farther down on the tnid.us result page?

    Need API access?  Contact sales@tnID.us.