Carrier detection & geo script? (7)
Similar to using the city & state geo-scripts ("Special offer for visitors from Alabama"), is there a script code for carrier detection? ("Special offer for visitors using AT&T as their cellular carrier.") Thanks!
It's not as straight forward as geo detection. One problem is wifi networks. Say an ATT customer is at home connected to their comcast wifi. From the web there is no good way to tell he is on ATT all you can tell is he is using comcast.
So far the best solution I found is the Maxmind ISP DB, its pretty simple install to a server and use. In the case above this would tell you the user is on comcast.
One other solution is to break down your ad groups by carrier and passing adding the a parameter to the url something like &carrier=verizon. Then you can use some on page code and pull that value into your page.
*Everything I'm mentioning is assuming you are running a web page and not an app, its also assuming the ad network didn't send you the carrier info in your url.
I would ask the traffic source you're using to see if they can pass the carrier info to you. Would be way easier.
Like jimcrim said ^^ Get the carrier info passed in your url, and then you can use it on your lander 
it's not rocket science though...
get a copy of maxmind isp database for $300 or so and use it similar as their php geoip API. The only problem is there's a real mess in there, but after sending a few clicks you should figure out and create some "macros" of which carrier is named what in their database. I mean macros because say AT&T has like 7 different names in there hehe.
Upside is - you do it pretty much once, MAYBE from time to time update your macros when you see something strange happens... and this is the database everybody else is using.
other way - go for HandsetDetection.com - they give some sort of remote API - works pretty good for devices and from my experience it's better with handsets than WURFL.. however it doesn't matter much, after all you won't be able to target accurately.. just the general idea... anyways, from what I saw there some time ago they also detect Carriers, maybe their database isn't such a mess... but again, Maxmind is what everybody else is using.
dont bother with handsetdetection
for device deterction just use Wurfl
for carrier detection, all they do is report the "Organisation" for a particular IP
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