Mobile country and mobile network code data

January 25, 2022

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We have added data containing the mobile country code and mobile network code to several of our GeoIP2 product and services. Mobile country code and mobile network code data uniquely identify mobile network operators (carriers). This data can be used for carrier segmentation and targeting as well as general analytics. Learn more about mobile country code data on Wikipedia.

This data will be included in the following GeoIP2 products and services:

GeoIP2 ISP database
GeoIP2 Enterprise database
GeoIP2 City Plus web service
GeoIP2 Insights web service
minFraud Insights web service
minFraud Factors web service

Database users

The mobile_country_code and mobile_network_code data will be included in all new releases of the GeoIP2 ISP and Enterprise databases starting with today’s release.

CSV file users

The new data columns will be added to the following files:

GeoIP2 ISP database
- GeoIP2-ISP-Blocks-IPv4.csv
- GeoIP2-ISP-Blocks-IPv6.csv
GeoIP2 Enterprise database
- GeoIP2-Enterprise-ISP.csv

See our developer documentation for the GeoIP2 ISP and Enterprise databases for more information about the files. You can also download a sample CSV database containing the new data columns for GeoIP2 ISP and Enterprise from our developer’s site.

MMDB file users

You may need to update your MMDB reader to support lookups containing the new output when it is released. You can find a sample MMDB file with mobile_country_code and mobile_network_code on our GitHub page.

Web service users

The new data will be included in the /traits object:

Our client APIs will be updated in the coming weeks to handle the new data. Make sure to keep your client API up to date to start taking advantage of this data.

If you are interfacing directly with our REST API, you can begin receiving the new data right away.