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Electronic Serial Number (ESN) of a mobile device

ID esn

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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32-bit identifier of AMPS and CDMA mobile devices, replaced by the MEID (meid). It is written as 8 hexadecimal digits or as an 11-digit decimal number, in which the first three digits encode the first eight bits (000 to 255) and the other eight digits the remaining 24 bits. The prefix 80 in hexadecimal (128 in decimal) marks a pseudo-ESN derived from an MEID, which is not guaranteed to be unique.

Categories
Telecommunications, Personally identifiable information
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}|(?:[01]\d{2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\d{8})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
9F6E45A1Synthetic ESN in hexadecimal form
15907226785The same ESN in decimal form
80A3F21CSynthetic pseudo-ESN (prefix 80)
12810744348The same pseudo-ESN in decimal form
9F6E45A invalidSeven hexadecimal digits, one too few
25607226785 invalidThe first three decimal digits cannot exceed 255

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianЭлектронный серийный номер (ESN) мобильного устройства32-битный идентификатор мобильных устройств стандартов AMPS и CDMA, заменённый MEID. Записывается 8 шестнадцатеричными цифрами или 11-значным десятичным числом. Префикс 80 (128 в десятичной записи) обозначает псевдо-ESN, вычисленный из MEID.

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