Sometimes they call us with some number and we want find out which company the phone number belongs to. A way of knowing who is calling you before picking up and answering the call, and downloading those calls that you are not interested in knowing. In addition, conventional mobile phones are currently used for calls to try to sell you a service or product, so you could also detect if it is one of those numbers. In this article you will learn how to detect all this in different ways and easily.
What operator is a mobile?
As many telephone operators call from own mobiles To try to hunt down customers, you could also detect which company or operator a mobile phone number belongs to in order to guess if one of these phones that you do not have in the phone book and that are not registered as Spam are calling you. However, remember that this is not a reliable method if you use the prefix to determine which telephone company it is, since it could have been ported and belonged to a different company.
For example, some common prefixes are:
- Symio usually start with 644.
- Jazztel for 640.
- Yoigo could have 622, 623, 633, etc.
- Vodafone can be the 600, 603, 607, 610 etc.
- Orange has the 605, 615, 625, 635, etc.
- Movistar 606, 608, 609, 616, 618, 619, etc.
However, imagine that a Symio 644xxxxxx mobile has made a portability to Jazztel, so it keeps its number 644, but now it will be under the new operator. That is why I said that this method is somewhat crude to detect the operator, since you are not always going to be right.
Use the CNMC website
The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) It also allows us, from its official website, to search for information on the operator to which a number that has called you belongs or from which you want to obtain information. To be able to consult information, you just have to follow these simple steps:
- The first step is to enter the official website of the CNMC from this link.
- Accept the message that appears on the screen when accessing the web.
- And then you will see that a box appears to enter the number you want to obtain information about and a Simple and Advanced tab. The simple one is enough in most cases, although the advanced one allows you to fine-tune more, even introducing the province, etc. But what really interests us is not this, which you could also use for quick searches, but the Fixed and Mobile buttons that appear at the top right. Click on Mobile or Landline depending on the type of phone.
- Now enter the phone number in the new box that appears.
- Then solve the Captcha that puts you to see that you are not a bot.
- Press the Consult button.
- And all the data will appear on the screen.
This method is extremely easy and fast, and will allow us to determine to which telephone company a certain telephone number belongs. We can use this method with all kinds of numbers, whether they are landlines or mobiles, for instance. You shouldn't have any problems with this alternative.
Search on Google
One of the simplest and most direct ways to know which company a mobile phone is calling you from, although it also works for landlines, is simply copying and pasting the phone number that is calling you in the web browser, in the google search engine, and see the results it brings you. This could even help you detect if they are sellers, or if it is some kind of scam, etc., since there are websites with a quite interesting registry of Spam numbers.
To be able to do this, the easiest way is to let the call time out, and once it has finished, copy the phone number from the calls app of your mobile device or from the missed call SMS that you receive. once you get you paste the number in Google enclosed in quotes (for example «600000000»), you give it a search and observe the results very well. Thanks to the quotes it will do an exact search and not only the numbers that partially match.
Surely the first webs that come out to you already have the result you are looking for. For example, you may see the contact website of a company to which you know that said number belongs, or you may come across the typical websites where there are opinions about telephone numbers and they are classified according to whether they are annoying, if they are vendors etc.
Google Phone App
Android users have a wide variety of phone applications. Google's phone app is one of the most popular, adding a wide range of features over time, including caller ID. When a company calls us, the name of the company appears just below the phone number on the screen, which is already displayed on the screen. Since companies often call us and show their name on the screen, we can use this information to help us make decisions.
If we see that a company calls us, be it a business that we have called or a job, we can decide whether or not to answer the phone. If we answer or ignore an incoming call, we may be waiting for a job or company we have called.
Although Google Phone is not pre-installed on most Android smartphones, it is available for download on many of them. Many phones with Android operating system are incompatible with the application, as well as some brands. Samsung-type phone users will have no problem using the Google Phone app, so you might want to give it a try. If your mobile phone is not compatible with this app, you can try other apps. In fact, it is likely that the calling app on your device already has these types of logs for detect spam, origin, etc., with its own records.
hidden codes
Many Android users may not be aware of this trick, but it allows us to trace the origin of a call we have received. After receiving a call, access the calling app on your mobile device, and then dial *57 as if it were a telephone that you want to call. And hit call to run that code.
By doing this, we automatically activate the call trace function that our telephone service offers. It's a hidden tool, but it works well in this scenario. With this method, we will have the ability to track this unknown phone number easily. Even if we don't have this information about a phone number, this method can help us in many cases.
phone listings
If you need to get contact information for a business, you can use a phone book or telephone directory. These guides, like the well-known yellow pages and white pages, now work online, since those books that were distributed around the houses are left behind. But we can use the Internet to find out if a phone number belongs to a certain company or person in a very easy and direct way, just by accessing these websites and entering the number we want to obtain information about.
It is still possible to use this technique today. These are other directories that we can use if we want to find a phone number that has called us in the past to find out which company it belongs to. You may already be familiar with these lists and directories, so there must be one that is useful or trustworthy. Try the following:
- Yellow Pages, now in an online version, but it still has the characteristics of the classic yellow pages.
- Infobel.com, a website where you will find a large telephone directory for Spain, although it is also available for 60 other countries.
- Teleexplorer.es, another of the most popular pages you can go to to find out who is calling you.
- Yelp.com, this other site is focused on the commercial world, so it can be useful in some cases.
