Error Text Descriptions
The error_text field in your API result gives you information on the current status of the number you have checked.
The error_text wording directly relates to the error_code and status.
For example, anything marked as Live will always be error_code: 0 and Status: Delivered
All other Error Texts and Error Codes do not reflect a Live number and are therefore marked in the Status column as Undelivered
| Error Text | Error Code | Status | Description | Credit Removed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live | 0 | Delivered | Active mobile number* | Yes |
| Dead | 1 | Undelivered | Number decommissioned by the owning network. | Yes |
| Inconclusive | 5 | Undelivered | We are unable to retrieve a response from the network for this number. | Yes |
| No Credit | 7 | Undelivered | The account had insufficient funds to process this request. | No |
| No Teleservice Provisioned | 11 | Undelivered | This number is not able to receive calls or SMS messages. This is usually a number relating to a data SIM. | Yes |
| Absent Subscriber | 27 | Undelivered | Please see the box below for a more detailed description. | Yes |
| Number Not Supported | 999 | Rejected | This is an invalid number. Possible reasons include: • The number does not contain a valid country code. • The number does not contain a valid number range. • The number is too long or too short | No |
Absent Subscribers
This type of response means telephone number is assigned to a mobile SIM card, but either:
There has been a prolonged period of inactivity from the mobile handset.
The mobile phone has been turned off, or gone out of coverage, or is in airplane mode AND someone has attempted to call or send an SMS to the telephone number.
The number is allocated to a new SIM card and the SIM card has not yet been registered to a user.
- Alert
For some networks, only the MCC MNC information is available. In this instance all numbers checked belonging to one of these networks will be given a Delivered status
We advise all users to visit our Coverage Checker page before uploading numbers for processing.
North American numbers - Prefix 1
We'll identify if a number is a landline but for those numbers recognised as Landline then we are unable to give an accurate status for that number.
In this instance all landline numbers are given a an Error Text result of LIVE by default.
Updated over 3 years ago