Phonelint

Guides

How to get a phone list into a state where your campaign does not waste money on numbers that were never going to answer.

Formatting

What E.164 is, and why your list probably isn't in it

E.164 is the international format every SMS gateway and dialler expects. Here is the rule, the four mistakes that break it, and how to convert a messy export without guessing.

SMS

How to clean a phone list before an SMS campaign

A sequenced checklist for scrubbing a phone list before you send: deduplicate, normalise, drop unallocated numbers, remove landlines, then enrich only what is left.

Line type

Mobile, landline or VoIP: why line type decides your bounce rate

What line type actually means, how it is determined from a numbering plan, why ported numbers are the known limitation, and how to act on each type.

Integrations

How to clean a phone list before importing it to Klaviyo

Klaviyo rejects phone numbers that are not in E.164 and charges you for SMS to landlines. Here is how to prepare the file so the import runs clean the first time.

Cost

What phone validation actually costs

Published per-lookup API rates, worked examples on a 100,000-row list, and where a local numbering-plan pass changes the arithmetic.