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

7.4.0.1190

Released on: December 2023

Added

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Changed

• Carried Information for Canada now uses better data

Deprecated

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Fixed

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Security

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7.4.0.1184

Released on: October 2023

Added

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Changed

• All US Territories (PR, AS, MP, GU, VI) now use higher accuracy technology for Real-Time verification

Deprecated

• None

Removed

• None

Fixed

• Impovements for Memory Leak prevention

Security

• None

7.3.0.1152

Released on: January 2023

Added

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Changed

• International CNAM has been deprecated. CNAM is now only available in US and Canada.

Deprecated

• None

Removed

• None

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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Removed

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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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Changed

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Deprecated

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Removed

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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

Added

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Changed

• Global Phone will now also require Premium Mode in order to return CNAM Information

Deprecated

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Removed

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Fixed

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Security

• None

4.2.0.1101

Released on: August 2022

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Changed

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Deprecated

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Fixed

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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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Deprecated

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Removed

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Fixed

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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

Added

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Changed

• Reworked Global Phone Back end to now use .NET Core. No expected changes to client side interface.

Deprecated

• None

Removed

• None

Fixed

• None

Security

• None

4.1.0.1034

Released on: May 2021

Added

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Changed

• 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

Removed

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Fixed

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Security

• None

4.0.0.102

Released on: March 2021

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Changed

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Deprecated

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Removed

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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

• None

4.0.0.100

Released on: November 2020

Added

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Changed

• Back-end changes to Europe hosted web services to comply with GDPR Regulations with regards to data caching.

Deprecated

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Removed

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Fixed

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Security

• None

4.0.0.99

Released on: August 2020

Added

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Changed

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Deprecated

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Removed

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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

• None

4.0.0.91

Released on: March 2020

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Changed

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Deprecated

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Removed

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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

• None

4.0.0.70

Released on: March 2018

Added

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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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Removed

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Fixed

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Security

• None

4.0.0.54

Released on: February 2017

Added

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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

• None

Removed

• None

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

Added

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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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Removed

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Fixed

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Security

• None

4.0.0.45

Released on: November 2016

Added

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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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Removed

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Fixed

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Security

• None

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

• None

Removed

• None

Fixed

• Fixed behavior for defaultCallingCode

Security

• None

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

• None

Removed

• Removed Result Code PC01

Fixed

• Fixed Parentheses on trunk prefixes

Security

• None

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
  • • 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

• None

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
• • is now allowed in DefaultCallingCode option

Changed

• Country search logic change:
  • Improve search speeds for certain countries

Deprecated

• None

Removed

• None

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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Removed

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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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Deprecated

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Removed

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Fixed

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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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Removed

• None

Fixed

• None

Security

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3.0.0.12

Released on: December 2014

Added

• SONP Support

Changed

• None

Deprecated

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Removed

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Fixed

• Minor bug fixes

Security

• None

3.0.0.10

Released on: September 2014

Added

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Changed

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Deprecated

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Fixed

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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