Definition of an HLR Number Verification Request The technical term “HLR” (Home Location Register) is a fundamental element of mobile phone networks. Here is what you need to know about HLR requests. What information does an HLR request provide? After an HLR request, you will obtain the following information: Id The unique HLR identifier Phone number The phone number in question Status The status of the number (valid or invalid) Operator The name of the operator managing the number SMS Partner offers HLR to find out more about HLR number verification. Why use HLR verification? Using HLR allows you to clean and analyze a mobile phone number database. This enables you to: Increase your deliverability rate during bulk SMS campaigns by using HLR request validation from telecom operators, thus ensuring a better return on investment. Reduce sending costs by removing unassigned numbers, which allows you to lower sending costs based on the number of SMS messages sent. Also read on this topic: How to improve the deliverability rate of an SMS campaign? How to set up an HLR request? Mobile number verification can be carried out in two ways: The HLR API The online platform In the telecommunications field, many other solutions and acronyms exist, such as SMS+, MMS, SMS, RCS, SMPP. If you would like to share this solution with your network, become an SMS reseller with SMS Partner. Do you run email campaigns? You can also verify your email address databases with Mail Partner!