Know all network number prefixes in Nigeria from this post. We have included both old and newest number prefixes for MTN, Glo, Airtel, 9Mobile, Smile, Ntel, Starcomm, Zoom, MultiLinks, and Visafone.
Because of the boom in the telecom business in Nigeria, so many Telecommunication companies have emerged as well as so many different phone numbers that are becoming unpopular unlike 0803, 0809, 0805, 0808, and other easy-to-identify phone numbers.
Maybe, you received a call from a phone number and you are not familiar with the number so you are searching to identify which network owns that particular mobile phone number. Search no more because I have updated this post with the latest number prefix of all networks in Nigeria.
For instance, 0814 is an MTN number, 0701 is an Airtel number, 0811 is a Glo number, 0817 is Etisalat 9Mobile number; all other network number prefixes are provided here on this post so I suggest you bookmark this page for future reference.
Sometimes I don’t usually guess right even if I try to be smart. Seriously, it’s hard these days to differentiate or know the actual network people use to call you in Nigeria. There is quite a handful of phone number prefixes used by our Network providers nowadays.
There are currently numerous numbers available now that will be very difficult to guess or cram that is why it’s important to save posts like this because it could be handy next time a strange number calls you.
Nigerian Networks and Their Phone Number Prefix
MTN
- 0703
- 0706
- 0803
- 0806
- 0810
- 0813
- 0814
- 0816
- 0903
- 07026
- 07025
- 0704
Globacom
- 0705
- 0805
- 0807
- 0811
- 0815
- 0905
Airtel
- 0701
- 0708
- 0802
- 0808
- 0812
- 0902
- 0904
9Mobile
- 0809
- 0817
- 0818
- 0909
Starcomms
- 07028
- 07029
- 0819
Visafone (now owned by MTN
- 07025
- 07026
- 0704
Multi-Links
- 07027
- 0709
ZoomMobile
- 0707
NTEL
- 0804
Smile
- 0702.
NOTE:
MTN NG has now added the three Visafone number prefixes to its database base after acquiring the network. This means that the numbers “0704, 07025, and 07026” are now MTN numbers.
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Thanks alot. I really appreciate the work you have done here. Well done,
Thanks for recognizing my work
This is helpful.
Well done; but you omitted MTN 0906…
Thanks for reminding
A part of this info was not helpful. In the early part of the post you listed ‘0902’ as a 9 mobile line. When one scrolls down to read the list of numbers under each network, you’ll see the same ‘0902’ number Airtel. Now such information is confusing and misleading.
Pls inform us correctly.
Thanks
It’s corrected and updated. Thanks for the info.
Add 0908 as 9mobile as well
Nice post, very informative.
Worth mentioning though, there is an on play store that shows you the network your contacts are using. the name of the is ‘Tely’
here is a link
Great job on compiling this list of network number prefixes in Nigeria! I’m definitely going to bookmark this page for future reference.