This section contains historic changes to the Experian Phone Validation API, as well as a link to documentation for an older phone validation API.
Nov 2024
Bulk capabilities: Experian Phone Validation now includes an additional endpoint that allows up to 10,000 phone numbers to be submitted in a single API call. The Bulk Phone Validation API includes all the latest and greatest features of Experian Phone Validation and will enable clients to own the data journey for their bulk phone validation needs. Have a look at the API specification and contact us if you have any questions.
Apr 2024
New Features
New Zealand coverage improvements: Over coverage of New Zealand phone numbers has improved, so customers will see Verified, Dead and other confidence types, where previously we would have returned No Coverage. This supports most major network providers, including Vodafone and 2degrees. Customers will benefit from this extended coverage without needing to make any changes, and at no additional charge.
Feb 2023
New Features
Disposable number improvements: The database has expanded by 5 times, with an increased number of websites captured and a more extensive pull from existing sources. Improved automation to reduce the time taken for a new disposable number to appear in the response.
Sept 2022
New Features
Supplementary live status: The new request parameter allows customers to enable Live Status checking for mobiles and landlines in countries previously unsupported. At launch, this includes USA mobiles and UK landlines.
Jan 2022
New Features
a new field has been added, disposable_number. The API will now identify mobile numbers that are known to be from a disposable network or have been found on websites or applications advertising disposable numbers.
Nov 2020
Experian Phone Validation v2 now:
Supports country ISO code as part of request parameter for pre-validation
Support on enhanced portability information which returns the portability date of a phone number
Jun 2019
Experian Phone Validation v2 has the following key characteristics:
It supports multiple data formats - JSON, XML, MessagePack.
Improved uptime and failover with multiple cloud hosted locations in different geographic areas.
Better consistency with our other products, such as Experian Email Validation.
Improved processing times per request.
Caching functionality, to further improve the performance of recently processed phone numbers.
Local number formatting.
Phone number type indicator.
Improved portability information.
It's easier to implement, with improved documentation.
