Can you tell/findout what network a mobile number is on?

photoshop · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:16

Can you tell / find out what network a mobile number is on?

Basically. im getting some silly text messages from an ex of mine and i think shes using one of her old old numbers. I think the number is vodaphone.
How can i find out what network the number belongs to?

I need to know before i confront her

Cheers

PS. The number is 077859xxxxx

Andr3w · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:17

Post the number on here and somebody will work it out for you

PardonTheWait · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:18

Phone the number and claim to be from Orange

They'll go 'I'm not with orange, I'm with xxxxxxx'

You go 'HAHAHAHAHA ****IN' PWNED INNIT' and hang up

gumbald · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:20

Do as above, get a friend to ring them and ask.

photoshop · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:20

Mohinder said:
Phone the number and claim to be from Orange

They'll go 'I'm not with orange, I'm with xxxxxxx'

You go HAHAHAHAHA ****IN' PWNED INNIT and hang up

I would but they phone is switched off all the time. So she must be sending texts and switching it off.
I've tried ringing it constantly

iraiguana · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:22

Why not just have the number blocked ? Let it go surely?

tres · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:22

there's an Iphone application that does it

post the first 6 digits and i'll tell you

photoshop · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:24

trescodrucey said:
there's an Iphone application that does it

post the first 6 digits and i'll tell you

07785947xxx

tres · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:29

Vodafone

photoshop · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:30

trescodrucey said:
Vodafone

thanks you i knew it!
time to confront the silly c0w

tres · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:33

just remember, there is more than one person on Vodafone

gillywibble · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:41

Mobile Network Checker.

For future reference.

tres · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:57

i found one thing in life i was good at, then gillywibble tears it away from me

GarethDW · 30 Sep 2008 at 20:06

However, don't forget that numbers are portable, so although the number was originally assigned to Vodafone, it may have been ported by the customer to another operator since then.

photoshop · 30 Sep 2008 at 20:28

GarethDW said:
However, don't forget that numbers are portable, so although the number was originally assigned to Vodafone, it may have been ported by the customer to another operator since then.

but shes always had that number. She stopped using it a few months ago.

Begbie · 30 Sep 2008 at 20:38

Why dont ya just not text her back.

Or at least give us some more info.

v0n · 30 Sep 2008 at 21:16

Actually - the only thing that you can check is that the number WAS in Vodafone pool in 1998. As people change networks and move contracts porting their numbers between networks it's hard to track down all the redirections between operators it's quite doubtful someone remained on the same tariff for 10 years...

rscosworth · 30 Sep 2008 at 21:23

Yep, mine orignally on 02, been round the houses since and on tmobile, so that checker meand nothing

krooton · 30 Sep 2008 at 23:36

v0n said:
Actually - the only thing that you can check is that the number WAS in Vodafone pool in 1998. As people change networks and move contracts porting their numbers between networks it's hard to track down all the redirections between operators it's quite doubtful someone remained on the same tariff for 10 years...

Yep, that website knows that my number was originally T-mobile, but that was 6 years ago, and it has been on orange and O2 since.

unwashed potato! · 1 Oct 2008 at 12:19

what difference does it make knowing it's on vodafone?