Global Phone
Important Announcements
None
General Information
- Global Phone Wiki Page
- Global Phone FAQ
- Premium and CallerID Coverage
- Quick Start Guide
- Support contact information: tech@melissa.com or 1-800-MELISSA (1-800-635-4772)
Build History
8.4.0.1220
Released on: November 2024
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Security
- Changed Internal Database Cache Search Mechanism to use newer technology
8.4.0.1214
Released on: October 2024
Added
- Result Code PS09 (VOIP) Phone type was added to the API
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8.4.0.1209
Released on: June 2024
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Changed
- Internal routing optimization/improvement for real-time international phone verification.
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Security
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8.4.0.1205
Released on: June 2024
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Security
- Changed the way data is accessed from direct Cassandra queries to the MAAS API for stability and security.
- Added timers and retry function to MAAS queries to prevent long processing times.
- Additional internal timing logs deployed for improved debugging purposes.
8.4.0.1196
Released on: June 2024
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Fixed
- Service now correctly returns GE02 instead of GE05 when the phone number input is blank.
Security
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8.4.0.1192
Released on: April 2024
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Security
- Service now compiled in .NET Core 8
7.4.0.1190
Released on: December 2023
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Changed
- Carried Information for Canada now uses better data
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Security
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7.4.0.1184
Released on: October 2023
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- All US Territories (PR, AS, MP, GU, VI) now use higher accuracy technology for Real-Time verification
Deprecated
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Fixed
- Impovements for Memory Leak prevention
Security
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7.3.0.1152
Released on: January 2023
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Changed
- International CNAM has been deprecated. CNAM is now only available in US and Canada.
Deprecated
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Removed
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Fixed
- Fixed an issue where royalty logs wasn't logging correctly
Security
- Service compiled using .NET 7
4.3.0.1128
Released on: December 2022
Added
- New Result code for Disposable Phone Flag (PS19)
- Added new system to suppress CNAM information for phone numbers in our suppression list
Changed
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Deprecated
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Fixed
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Security
- New implementation for Web Service Request Throttling to prevent web service abuse
4.2.0.1116
Released on: October 2022
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Deprecated
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Fixed
- Fixed an issue where certain phone numbers with slashes were causing the service to crash.
Security
- Improvements and fixes to back-end microservices for Auto-Refill Credit Handling
4.2.0.1104
Released on: September 2022
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Changed
- Global Phone will now also require Premium Mode in order to return CNAM Information
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Security
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4.2.0.1101
Released on: August 2022
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Security
- Added Extra Layer of Security to prevent the unauthorized use of Credit Licenses using a Black/White/Gray List system.
4.2.0.1081
Released on: August 2022
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Security
- Fixed a security issue where 0 Quantity Credit Licenses were returning responses.
4.2.0.1075
Released on: July 2022
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Changed
- Reworked Global Phone Back end to now use .NET Core. No expected changes to client side interface.
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Security
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4.1.0.1034
Released on: May 2021
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- 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 |
Deprecated
- 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 |
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Security
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4.0.0.102
Released on: March 2021
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Fixed
- Fixed an issue where incorrect results were returning when specifying the country code "US" with an international phone number. The inputted country code will now take priority for selecting the location of the phone number.
Security
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4.0.0.100
Released on: November 2020
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Changed
- Back-end changes to Europe hosted web services to comply with GDPR Regulations with regards to data caching.
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Security
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4.0.0.99
Released on: August 2020
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Fixed
- Fixed an issue where we are not able to handle German Phone Numbers with a prefix of 00. The service should now properly handle this.
- Fixed an issue where Brazilian Landlines were not verifying accurately due to country restrictions. Brazil now uses Range Data to verify phone numbers.
Security
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4.0.0.91
Released on: March 2020
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Fixed
- Fixed an issue where Global Phone was not logging usage for Premium Verifications for Canada.
- Occasionally, premium requests made will return the result codes "PE11,PS01,PS07". PE11 indicates a disconnected phone, and PS01 indicates a valid phone. These two result codes should not be able to be returned together. This has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue where PE11 phone numbers would output incorrect results. If a record returns a result code of PE11, it should only populate the output fields that a PE01 record populates. The only populated output fields for PE01 records are RecordID, Results, PhoneNumber, and CountryAbbreviation, which is how PE11 records should now return as well.
Security
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4.0.0.70
Released on: March 2018
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Changed
- 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
Deprecated
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Fixed
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Security
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4.0.0.54
Released on: February 2017
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Changed
- Improved performance on batch queries in premium mode
- Toll-free numbers are no longer processed through HLR, as they are not supported
Deprecated
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Removed
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Fixed
- Fixed issue with certain phones having an empty carrier after being validated in premium mode
Security
- None
4.0.0.51
Released on: February 2017
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Changed
- 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
Deprecated
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Security
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4.0.0.45
Released on: November 2016
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Changed
- Updated result error codes to be more precise
- plit 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
Deprecated
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Security
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4.0.0.27
Released on: September 2016
Added
- Added new output field, postal code (available only for US)
- Added new output field, InternationalPhoneNumber
Changed
- Increased digit limit for phone searching
- Any number not geographically tied to a location will now return blank latitude/longitudes, instead of 0,0
Deprecated
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Removed
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Fixed
- Fixed behavior for defaultCallingCode
Security
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4.0.0.26
Released on: September 2016
Added
- Added new output field, postal code (available only for US)
- Added new output field, InternationalPhoneNumber
Changed
- 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
Deprecated
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Removed
- Removed Result Code PC01
Fixed
- Fixed Parentheses on trunk prefixes
Security
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4.0.0.25
Released on: September 2016
Added
- Added new output field, postal code (available only for US)
- Added new output field, InternationalPhoneNumber
Changed
- Country search logic change:
- The service will now only limit the search based on input of + codes, country codes, or defaultCallingCodes
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- 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
Deprecated
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Removed
- Removed PS confidence Codes when there is a PE03 code
- Removed countries starting with X (‘XG’, ‘XV’, ‘XN’, etc)
- Removed result codes from suggestions
Fixed
- Fixed parentheses parsing on country dialing codes
Security
- None
4.0.0.24
Released on: September 2016
Added
- Added US territories to search when inputting country as US
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- is now allowed in DefaultCallingCode option
Changed
- Country search logic change:
- Improve search speeds for certain countries
Deprecated
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Removed
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Fixed
- Fixed AT&T Encoding
- Fixed bug on short phone numbers
Security
- None
4.0.0.19
Released on: July 2016
Added
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Changed
- Improved performance of batch processing
Deprecated
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Fixed
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Security
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4.0.0.16
Released on: May 2016
Added
- 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
Changed
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Security
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3.0.0.12.1
Released on: June 2015
Added
- Added national prefix input detection and validation.
Changed
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Deprecated
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Fixed
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Security
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3.0.0.12
Released on: December 2014
Added
- SONP Support
Changed
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Deprecated
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Fixed
- Minor bug fixes
Security
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3.0.0.10
Released on: September 2014
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Security
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Past Announcements
Global Phone V3 Deprecation - December 01, 2022
Global Phone V3 Deprecation link can be found here