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Phone number in E.164 format

ID phone_e164

Pattern of phonePersonal data (PII)Draft

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International telephone number written in the format of ITU-T Recommendation E.164: a plus sign followed by at most 15 digits, without spaces or punctuation. The digits start with a country code of one to three digits, which never starts with 0. This compact form is used by SIP, SMS gateways, ENUM and many APIs.

Pattern of
Phone number phone
Categories
Personally identifiable information, Common, Telecommunications
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
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Regular expression

^\+[1-9]\d{1,14}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
+12025550143United States; 555-0100 to 555-0199 are reserved for fiction
+442079460958United Kingdom; 020 7946 0000 to 0999 are reserved for drama
+1 202 555 0143 invalidSpaces are not part of the E.164 form
12025550143 invalidThe leading plus sign is missing

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianНомер телефона в формате E.164Международный номер телефона в формате рекомендации МСЭ-Т E.164 — знак плюс и не более 15 цифр без пробелов и разделителей. Начинается с кода страны из одной–трёх цифр, который не начинается с 0.

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