Every phone number in the country is tied to a particular telephone network. Sometimes you may need to identify the exact telephone network to which a phone number belongs.

Established telephone networks in the country each have phone number prefixes that belong to them. This phone number series (or prefixes) of each of the networks serve as a way you can identify phone numbers belonging to the telephone networks.

Phone number prefixes are the first 3 numbers of a phone number immediately after the country code (which is +234 for Nigeria).

When you want to identify if a number is MTN or Airtel, always look out for the prefixes;

MTN phone number prefixes are:

·         0803-

·         0806-

·         0810-

·         0813-

·         0814-

·         0816-

·         0903-

·         0906-

·         0913-

·         0916-

·         07025-

·         07026-

·         0703-

·         0706-

Airtel phone number prefixes are:

·         0701-

·         0708-

·         0802-

·         0808-

·         0812-

·         0901-

·         0902-

·         0904-

·         0907-

·         0912-

Typically, MTN phone number prefixes end with 0, 3, and 6 while Airtel phone number prefixes end with 2 and 8.

With this information, the next time you want to know if a number is MTN or Airtel, just a quick look at the number prefixes is enough to provide you with an answer.

Click here to find out how to send SMS to MTN phone numbers.

Click here to find out how to send SMS to Airtel phone numbers.

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