## Global Phone Overview

The Global Phone Cloud API features real-time phone validation allowing detection of unregistered phone numbers, to help improve the quality of the phone data in your database as well as understand the regions your contacts are located. Verify, correct, and append data to phone numbers in over 250+ countries and territories.
In US/CA you can perform premium real-time checks to distinguish live numbers and phone types.

You can use Global Phone to:

* Verify and append country dialing codes, international exit codes, national prefixes, and more.
* Append geographic information on the telephone line such as latitude, longitude, administrative area, and language.
* Parse the phone number into its various components.
* Return Caller ID Information (US/CA Only) .
* Identify the number’s phone type including mobile, landline, VoIP, and more. (US/CA Only)
* Perform a real-time check on a number to know whether it is live or not. (US/CA Only)


**Documentation**

- [Global Phone Documentation](https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/global-phone-index.html)


**Useful Resources**

- [GitHub - Global Phone Open API Specification](https://github.com/MelissaData/MelissaCloudAPI-OpenAPI-Specification/blob/main/openapi/apis/global-phone.yaml)
- [Release notes](https://releasenotes.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/)
- [Result codes](https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/global-phone/result-codes.html)


**Product Page**

[https://www.melissa.com/phone-verification](https://www.melissa.com/phone-verification)

**Support Center**

[https://www.melissa.com/company/product-support](https://www.melissa.com/company/product-support)