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“I know I can find a landline phone number for a residence or business by using your DOTS GeoPhone^SM service, but what about getting information on a wireless number? Do you have a solution for cell phones?” The answer is, YES!

It is estimated that as many as 83% of Americans have a wireless telephone, while traditional landline growth has been declining since 2001. As more people abandon regular landline telephones for wireless telephones, businesses and government agencies are seeking new ways to validate and capture contact information associated with these wireless telephone numbers.

Service Objects' DOTS GeoPhone Wireless^SM is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service that allows you to lookup name and postal address information for wireless telephone numbers.

DOTS GeoPhone Wireless can instantly check a wireless telephone number against our multi-carrier database of over 105 million records, returning an accurate and validated wireless telephone number and contact information in real-time. Based on a simple 10-digit wireless telephone number, DOTS GeoPhone Wireless can return:

• Name & Address
• Line Type (Wireless, VoIP, or Landline)
• Carrier Information
• Geographic Data

In the past, wireless carriers did not provide directory assistance information on their subscribers. But now, as wireless service providers prepare to take on local phone companies in the business of listings and directory assistance services, contact information is becoming available on wireless subscribers.

To date, the majority of reverse telephone number lookup services have been incapable of running complete searches on wireless telephone numbers, returning match rates as low as 20 percent. Through the use of new and exclusive databases, Service Objects’ DOTS GeoPhone Wireless provides the industry’s most complete wireless telephone number lookup solution, returning match rates of nearly 50 percent!

<?php ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled","0"); $wsdlUrl = "http://trial.serviceobjects.com/gpw/GeoPhoneWireless.asmx?WSDL"; $WirelessNumber = "8056803234"; $LicenseKey = "ENTER YOUR LICENSE KEY HERE"; $soapClient = new SoapClient($wsdlUrl); $SoapResponse = $soapClient->ValidateNumber(array("PhoneNumber" => $WirelessNumber, "LicenseKey" => $LicenseKey)); $ResultNode = $SoapResponse->ValidateNumberResult; if (!isset($ResultNode->Error)) {   if (isset($SoapResponse->ValidateNumberResult->Providers-> Provider)) {     $ResultNode=$SoapResponse->ValidateNumberResult->Providers-> Provider;     foreach($ResultNode as $node) echo $node." "; }   if (isset($SoapResponse->ValidateNumberResult->Contacts-> Contact)) {     $ResultNode=$SoapResponse->ValidateNumberResult->Contacts-> Contact;     foreach($ResultNode as $node) echo $node." ";   } } else {   $ErrorNode = $ResultNode->Error;   foreach($ErrorNode as $node) echo $node; } ?>

Dowload the full PHP 5 example code by clicking here.

Wireless telephone data gives you another way to verify and enhance your company’s contact information. By adding DOTS GeoPhone Wireless to your business processes, you can reduce fraud and correct contact information in real-time. Most importantly, the service is compatible with all Internet standards, so you can integrate wireless telephone number lookup and validation without making any costly changes to your software.