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cm-phone-lookup vs nigerian-mobile-validator
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Category
Developer Tools
Developer Tools
Type
Validators
Validators
Country
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open-source
Free / open-source
Verified
Unverified
Unverified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
pan-african, validation, typescript, phone, operator-detection
validation, nigeria, typescript, phone, ncc
Summary
A TypeScript library for multi-country African mobile operator detection and phone-number validation, covering countries such as Cameroon, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Ghana with 18 or more operators. It exposes a fluent API for operator lookup, validation, and formatting with rich metadata. Published on npm under the @williamtessa27 scope.
A TypeScript library for validating Nigerian mobile numbers with alignment to NCC number-allocation rules, including per-operator prefix detection and normalisation. It targets regulated fintech use cases where incorrect validation carries business risk. Published on npm as nigerian-mobile-validator.
cm-phone-lookup vs nigerian-mobile-validator at a glance
cm-phone-lookup and nigerian-mobile-validator are both listed under Validators in Wycord's Developer Tools index.
cm-phone-lookup is based in Cameroon and nigerian-mobile-validator in Nigeria.
Both currently show the status "Docs live".
On access, both are marked "No approval needed".
Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.
How they differ
- Country: cm-phone-lookup, Cameroon; nigerian-mobile-validator, Nigeria.
Topics
Both are tagged: validation, typescript, phone.
Only cm-phone-lookup: pan-african, operator-detection.
Only nigerian-mobile-validator: nigeria, ncc.
Common questions
- Which has better uptime, cm-phone-lookup or nigerian-mobile-validator?
- Wycord does not yet have enough probe results for both to compare uptime.
- Do cm-phone-lookup or nigerian-mobile-validator need approval before use?
- Both are marked "No approval needed".
- Is the documentation for cm-phone-lookup and nigerian-mobile-validator working?
- Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
- Where are cm-phone-lookup and nigerian-mobile-validator based?
- cm-phone-lookup is based in Cameroon; nigerian-mobile-validator is based in Nigeria.