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Database Detection for ISP/Mobile Carrier (7)

10-03-2016 09:45 AM #1 hunterapp (Member)
Database Detection for ISP/Mobile Carrier

Hi there,

we're developing our own traffic analyzer tools and would like to have the most accurate info for mobile (connection type), country, carrier, and so on..

We've looked into Maxmind and there is several more. But which one would you recommend? I know the big guys (Voluum, Thrive..) use some custom-based DB. Which would be the best option? (we've budget to purchase any kind of databases) also how you maintain them over time.

thanks

10-03-2016 10:26 AM #2 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Maxmind sucks for carrier detection. Voluum uses digitalelement as far as I know and that one is most likely also the most accurate you can get If I'm not wrong, they won't let you download the DB, it works on a query bases system - you will need to get in touch with them in order to get the details.

10-03-2016 10:33 AM #3 erikgyepes (Moderator)

As @matuloo said the one from DigitalElement should be the best, Voluum and also Facebook uses them from what I've heard.

Maxmind should be the second best.

Pretty good is also IP2Location, I'm using them for in a custom IP targeting app.

10-03-2016 10:39 AM #4 hunterapp (Member)

Thanks guys, I already contacted them (DigitalElement).

10-03-2016 10:40 AM #5 caurmen (Administrator)

Yup, another vote for Digital Element here - I've heard good things about them.

I wanted to double-check, so I also asked Goshev, STM's ninja-uber-sysadmin, for his recommendations, and according to him they're considered pretty much the state of the art.

However, as others have said - do be aware they're really quite expensive.

10-04-2016 12:59 PM #6 dlegia (Member)

DigitalElement asked $1K monthly for instalation on my server (just for your information)

10-05-2016 11:16 AM #7 ivancy (Member)

We use our own solution that is basically based on the three big ones, Digital Elements, Maxmind and Quova plus ip ranges obtained directly from the carriers worldwide as we have an strong relationship with them plus our own conversion data.

We currently track around 350k carrier billing conversions per day through our system from our affiliates, and of course if a certain IP has conversions in a certain carrier, we know that it belongs to it and it's a good ip for us, so we assign it to that carrier, even if sometimes the databases and even the carriers tell us otherwise.

On an smaller scale as it's expensive and requires a lot of tech, you can also try to build something like that, comparing your own conversions data with whatever database you use.

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