How can you find out what network a number is on

other than phoning the person and asking him

I believe there is a website somewhere ?

Stephen

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"¬Stephen Hammond" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> other than phoning the person and asking him
>
> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>
> Stephen
>

¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
> other than phoning the person and asking him
>
> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>
> Stephen
>
>


http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/h...oduction.shtml
will show you the originating network but you will not know if the
number has been ported between networks.

"BC" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> ¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
>> other than phoning the person and asking him
>>
>> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>>
>> Stephen
>
>
> http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/h...oduction.shtml
> will show you the originating network but you will not know if the number
> has been ported between networks.

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http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp

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> other than phoning the person and asking him
>
> I believe there is a website somewhere ?

Ofcom lists what network the number prefix was originally assigned to
but if the number is ported you are screwed.
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¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
> other than phoning the person and asking him
>
> I believe there is a website somewhere ?

There is no public website showing the network a given mobile number is
now on.

In message <[email protected]>, Colin Forrester
<[email protected]> writes
>¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
>> other than phoning the person and asking him
>> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>
>There is no public website showing the network a given mobile number is
>now on.
>
Http://www.mnnc.net/ ?
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> A more up-to-date, free and public resource is:
> http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp
>
Thanks for the way to find out where a mobile number originated from

Stephen

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:12:57 +0100, Gyp <[email protected]> wrote:

>In message <[email protected]>, Colin Forrester
><[email protected]> writes
>>¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
>>> other than phoning the person and asking him
>>> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>>
>>There is no public website showing the network a given mobile number is
>>now on.
>>
>Http://www.mnnc.net/ ?
Sorry but none of th eabove are conclusive due to porting
possibilities.
This is conclusive:-
If you have a Nokia, for example,
go to Settings/phone/operator selection/manual
or whatever is your phone's equivalent.
Assuming you don't have a 'roaming in the UK' agreement, try to
register with one of the networks. It will refuse to register with all
except your own network ('3' could be the exception).
If you ar on BT mobile you are on Vodafone. If on Virgin then you are
on T-Mobile. Easymobile is T-Mobile too afaik.
Another way to tell if you are on Vodafone, on my phone at least, is
to switch on the facility to see the telephone area code you are
currently lnked to.
In summary: If you don't not have a roaming agreement then try to
register your phone to networks manually - if you suceed that will be
your network.
Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.

"Gyp" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In message <[email protected]>, Colin
> Forrester <[email protected]> writes
> > ¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
> > > other than phoning the person and asking him
> > > I believe there is a website somewhere ?
> >
> > There is no public website showing the network a given
> > mobile number is now on.
> >
> Http://www.mnnc.net/ ?

From that site:

>The results that are displayed show the original network that
>number was registered to. (Results for people who have changed
>network providers but kept their old mobile number will be incorrect).

Ivor

Gyp wrote:

>>> other than phoning the person and asking him
>>> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>>
>> There is no public website showing the network a given mobile number
>> is now on.
>>
> Http://www.mnnc.net/ ?

No good - I said "is now on".

There is a database, used by the mobile networks which shows up to date
allocation and porting, but it is not available to the public.

In message <[email protected]>, Ivor Jones
<[email protected]> writes

>> Http://www.mnnc.net/ ?
>
>From that site:
>
>>The results that are displayed show the original network that
>>number was registered to. (Results for people who have changed
>>network providers but kept their old mobile number will be incorrect).

Damn, I've always thought it was where the number was now.

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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:38:33 +0100, Colin Forrester
<[email protected]> wrote:

>There is a database, used by the mobile networks which shows up to date
>allocation and porting, but it is not available to the public.

There isn't, you know. There are several databases, and it's all a bit
of a kludge.

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David Topping wrote:
> "BC" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > ¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
> >> other than phoning the person and asking him
> >>
> >> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
> >>
> >> Stephen
> >
> >
> > http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/h...oduction.shtml
> > will show you the originating network but you will not know if the number
> > has been ported between networks.
>
> --
> A more up-to-date, free and public resource is:
> http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp

More up-to-date probably, but are you suggesting that ukphoneinfo.com
is either not free or not public?

BTW, http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/tci/locator.shtml takes you to
the lookup page directly.

mike wrote:
> David Topping wrote:
>> "BC" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> ¬Stephen Hammond wrote:
>>>> other than phoning the person and asking him
>>>>
>>>> I believe there is a website somewhere ?
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>
>>> http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/h...oduction.shtml
>>> will show you the originating network but you will not know if the number
>>> has been ported between networks.
>> --
>> A more up-to-date, free and public resource is:
>> http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp
>
> More up-to-date probably, but are you suggesting that ukphoneinfo.com
> is either not free or not public?
>
> BTW, http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/tci/locator.shtml takes you to
> the lookup page directly.

But it doesn't give you the details of *ported* numbers - just the
original network the number was on.

I just did a check on it and got:

"Oftel records show that numbers starting 0781x 0 are allocated to
Orange. Note that due to number portability if an individual number has
moved to a different operator this information is not publically available."

This number is no longer on Orange, and as they say, the porting data is
not publically available.

D