Mobile Network Lookup

A labs.ericsson.com enablerhttp://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-network-lookup/

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Mobile Network Lookup

Develop web applications with the Mobile Network Lookup enabler to provide services based on consumer’s mobile network information, such as operator name, country, etc.

The API consists of a simple web interface for looking up a consumer’s mobile operator name, network code and country.

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Why Mobile Network Lookup?

By means of the Mobile Network Lookup enabler, you can show your web pages in proper language corresponding to the country of the user. It would be great for the internationalization of your web application.

Or, you can show precise advertisement based on user's operator and country.

In a word, Mobile Network Lookup enabler can help you develop more personalized web applications, by either providing personalized languages or advertisements for your customers.

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Main Features of Mobile Identification

Lookup consumer’s mobile network information, including:

– Name of the mobile network operator

– Network code of the mobile network

– Country name of the mobile network

– Country code of the mobile network

Please note that the operator name, network code and country are of the consumer's parent operator, i.e. home operator.

– For instance, if a Chinese guy's in his trip in Sweden with his Chinese SIM card of China mobile, his operator will be identified as China Mobile, and his country will be identified as China.

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Mobile Network Lookup Overview

Your Web

ApplicationCustomer

Mobile Network

Lookup Enabler

Visit

Lookupwith

customer’sIP address

Return personalized

contents

Responsecustomer’snetworkinformation

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// lookup

$jsonstr =

REST_GET("http://nl.labs.ericsson.net/lookup?key=$API_KEY&cip=$CLIENT_IP_AD

DRESS");

// decode JSON string

$result = json_decode($jsonstr);

REST API

The REST protocol for the server of Mobile Network Lookup enabler are independent of the platform used on the client side

You can use any programming language with any web application environment to communicate with our enabler

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