Global Phone:Build History

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Build 4.1.0.1034

Released May 2021

  • The following result codes have been deprecated and will no longer return in the Web Service:
Result Code Description
PS09 VOIP Line
PS13 Toll Free Number
PS14 Special Number
PS15 Misc Type
PS21 Medium Confidence
PS16 Live Status Unknown
PS17 Live Number


  • The following result codes will now ONLY be available for the US and Canada through the Premium version of the service:
Result Code Description
PS07 Cellphone
PS08 Landline


Build 4.0.0.70

Released March 2018

  • New fields TimezoneCode and TimezoneName
    • Gives the code (e.g PST) and full name (e.g Pacific Standard Time) of the locality.
  • Credits now supported for Global Phone


Build 4.0.0.60

Released September 2017

  • Improved general performance for both express and premium modes
  • Fix a bug where certain ranges of phones were returning an empty response


Build 4.0.0.54

Released February 2017

  • Improved performance on batch queries in premium mode
  • Fixed issue with numbers validating twice in premium mode
  • Toll-free numbers are no longer processed through HLR, as they are not supported
  • Fixed issue with certain phones having an empty carrier after being validated in premium mode


Build 4.0.0.51

Released January 2017

CallerID feature now available
  • Obtain the Caller ID for the targeted phone
  • Added as an extra cost option for Global Phone
  • Enabled by calling ‘CallerID:true’ in the options parameter
TimeToWait option now available
  • Determines how long querying Premium HLR or Caller ID takes before timing out
  • If a query times out, the query will continue in the background
  • You can call in express mode to check in our cache to see what the results were
New result codes for TimeToWait
  • PS30 reflects that our Premium HLR service has timed out
  • PS31 reflects that our CallerID service has timed out
New correction algorithms for bad phones
  • Service will truncate any exit codes
  • Service will truncate any extraneous trunk prefixes
  • Service will truncate any zeroes in front of the phone number if it finds it invalid
Suggestions are now sorted by country name alphabetically


Build 4.0.0.47

Released December 2016

  • Phone numbers with trunk prefixes can now be processed correctly
  • Removed geographical information from toll-free numbers
  • Suggestions now include the phone number as if there is a + appended to the front
  • Fixed result code verification with premium on landlines


Build 4.0.0.45

Released November 2016

New Features
  • Fixed bug where US territories were no longer searchable when ctry is set to ‘US’
  • Updated result error codes to be more precise
    • Split PE03 into three separate codes; PE01 for bad phones, PE03 for numbers out of range, and new result error code PE11 for disabled numbers.
  • Speed improvements
  • Updated Premium Service
    • Wider coverage of countries
    • More accurate coverage of mobile phones and their various details


Build 4.0.0.27

Released September 2016

New Features
  • Added new output field, postal code (available only for US)
  • Added new output field, InternationalPhoneNumber
  • Increased digit limit for phone searching
  • Any number not geographically tied to a location will now return blank latitude/longitudes, instead of 0,0
  • Fixed behavior for defaultCallingCode


Build 4.0.0.26

Released September 2016

New Features
  • Removed Result Code PC01
  • Fixed Parentheses on trunk prefixes
  • 10 digit numbers are now searched in the +1 region first
  • 11 digit numbers with the starting digit 1 are now searched in the +1 region first


Build 4.0.0.25

Released September 2016

New Features
  • Removed PS confidence Codes when there is a PE03 code
  • Fixed parentheses parsing on country dialing codes
  • Removed countries starting with X (‘XG’, ‘XV’, ‘XN’, etc)
  • Removed result codes from suggestions
  • Country search logic change:
  • The service will now only limit the search based on input of + codes, country codes, or defaultCallingCodes
  • + codes take priority over country codes, which take priority over defaultCallingCodes. This means that if one exists, the service will focus the search in that specified area and ignore the other parameters
  • For example, an input of +861234567890 would only search in China (+86) even if ctry was set to ‘US’.
  • If there is no match, the service will not look in other countries
  • If you want to search all countries, leave country code and defaultCallingCode blank, while submitting a phone number without a + code


Build 4.0.0.24

Released September 2016

New Features
  • Added US territories to search when inputting country as US
  • + is now allowed in DefaultCallingCode option
  • Fixed AT&T Encoding
  • Improve search speeds for certain countries
  • Fixed bug on short phone numbers


Build 4.0.0.19

Released July 2016

New Features
  • Improved performance of batch processing


Build 4.0.0.16

Released May 2016

New Service & Features
  • Added real-time HLR validations for supported countries
    • Enhanced phone-type detection
    • Live/active number detection
  • Return carrier information
  • Single requests resulting in a PE04 can now return a Suggestion array for all possible countries the number can exist in
  • Only REST and JSON protocols are supported on request; JSON protocol used for response


Build 3.0.0.12 (Data Update)

Released June 2015

New Features
  • Added national prefix input detection and validation.


Build 3.0.0.12

Released December 2014

  • Minor bug fixes
  • JSONP Support


Build 3.0.0.10

Released September 2014

  • Initial Release
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