The Mobile Network Lookup enabler lets you to lookup the mobile network information of a user, such as his/her current operator, country, etc. The API consists of a simple web interface for looking up a consumer’s operator name, network code and country.

1. Mobile Network Lookup
A labs.ericsson.com enabler
http://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-network-lookup/

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Mobile Network Lookup Overview
Lookup
with
customer’s
Visit IP address
Your Web Mobile Network
Customer Lookup Enabler
Application
Return Response
personalized customer’s
contents network
information
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6. 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
// 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);
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