Mobile Equipment Identifier (MEID)
ID meid
DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft
This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
56-bit identifier of CDMA mobile devices that replaced the 32-bit ESN (esn). It is written as 14 hexadecimal characters or as an 18-digit decimal number, either of them optionally followed by a check character.
- Categories
- Telecommunications, Personally identifiable information
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- python-stdnum
stdnum.meid- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- DataPrep, Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, python-stdnum
Regular expression
^(?:[0-9A-F]{14}[0-9A-F]?|\d{18}\d?)$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| AF0123450ABCDE | Hexadecimal form (python-stdnum documentation) |
| AF0123450ABCDEC | The same MEID with its check character C |
| 293608736500703710 | The same MEID in decimal form |
| 2936087365007037100 | Decimal form with its check digit 0 |
| AF0123450ABCD invalid | One character too few |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Идентификатор мобильного оборудования (MEID) | 56-битный идентификатор мобильных устройств стандарта CDMA, заменивший 32-битный ESN. Записывается 14 шестнадцатеричными символами или 18-значным десятичным числом, в обоих случаях с необязательным контрольным символом. |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_equipment_identifier
- other: https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.meid.html
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/meid - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/telecom/meid.yamlon GitHub