Phone Number

Phone number data quality service validates, standardizes, and supplements your data.

The phone number service:

  • Validates phone numbers against National Number Plans from ITU and other public datasets.
  • Standardizes valid phone numbers into standard international or local format.
  • Enriches phone numbers with type, carrier and region, if available.

This service is included without additional licensing in the following data product templates:

  • B2B Customers
  • B2B Customers with Firmographics
  • B2C Customers
  • Contacts
  • Healthcare Providers
  • Patients

Required Input Attributes for Phone Number

The input dataset for this service must include attributes that can be mapped to the following enrichment input attributes.

Input Attribute Name Description
phone_number Phone number
country Country name (for example: United States, U.S., and so on)

Output Attributes for Phone Number

The following attributes are provided by this service.

Output Attribute Name Description
enriched_phone_valid Whether this is a valid phone number (true/false)
enriched_phone_country_code The country calling code
enriched_phone_national_format Phone number standardized to the national format
enriched_phone_international_format Phone number standardized to the international format, including country code
enriched_phone_for_matching Cleaned phone number
enriched_phone_region The region for the phone number
enriched_phone_type The phone number type

Values:
  • Fixed line: Landline number.
  • Mobile: Cellular or mobile number.
  • Fixed line or mobile: Landline, celluar, or mobile number.
  • Toll free: A telephone number that is billed for all arriving calls instead of incurring charges to the originating telephone subscriber (for example, 1-800 numbers in the US).
  • Premimum rate: Numbers for telephone calls during which certain services are provided, and for which prices higher than normal are charged. Unlike a normal call, part of the call charge is paid to the service provider, enabling businesses to be funded via the calls.
  • Shared cost: Premium country-specific phone numbers in the UK, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, and the Netherlands. These numbers are charged at a higher rate than regular numbers, however call rates are generally lower since the cost is shared between the caller and the business receiving the call. Charges to the caller are typically the amount of a local phone call with the receiver paying the usage rate.
  • VOIP: Voice over IP number, which is a real telephone number assigned to a user, but not to a specific phone line.
  • Personal number: A number associated with a particular person, and may be routed to either a mobile or fixed line number.
  • Pager: A number to send a message to a pager.
  • Universal access number: An 8-digit number that telecoms providers use to identify phone lines.
  • Voicemail: Dedicated voicemail access numbers that a customer can call to retrieve their voicemail.
  • Unknown
enriched_phone_carrier The original carrier of the phone number

Available for mobile numbers only
enriched_phone_success Returns false if the enricher encountered an error, otherwise true.