Recycled Phone Number Checker

What a reissue check tells you

A mobile number can return to circulation after a former customer stops using it. In this check, you submit a mainland China mobile number and a date, then receive a provider status label, a carrier field, and a description when one is supplied. This is a lookup of a returned record: it does not reconstruct the number’s full history or identify its present or former subscriber.

China’s telecommunications service specification uses “number freeze interval” for the period between cancellation and reactivation. That background explains why cancellation and later reassignment are separate events; it does not define what date this form expects or how the provider determines its marker. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s service specification is the reference for that term.

Result labels

Carrier codes may be shown as China Mobile (cmcc), China Unicom (cucc), or China Telecom (ctcc). An unrecognized code may remain in its returned form. The description is provider-supplied text and may not be in English.

Enter the number and date

1. Use a mainland China mobile number

   Enter 11 digits in the mainland format: the first digit is 1, the second is 3–9, and the remaining digits are numeric. Do not add +86, spaces, or punctuation.

2. Enter a valid calendar date

   Use eight digits in yyyyMMdd order, with a four-digit year followed by a two-digit month and day. For example, February 28, 2026 is 20260228. The page checks that the date exists on the calendar.

3. Run the query and review each field

   Select Query. Read the returned status, carrier, and description together. If the status is Unknown or a field is blank, treat it as unresolved rather than as a negative result.

4. Keep a copy only if needed

   The result can be copied or downloaded as a text summary. Check the summary before sharing it, since it includes the submitted number and date.

Questions about the result

Limits, data handling, and follow-up

• The service is scoped to mainland China mobile numbers. An English page does not make it a US-number lookup; US phone numbers are outside the stated input format.
• The result is not proof of who owns a number, who used it before, or who controls an online account. It also does not establish the date of cancellation or reassignment.
• The page sends the submitted number and date to a connected third-party service. Its original data collector, full coverage, record update time, and retention period are unverified. A query timestamp, if shown in the report, is not the record’s update time.
• Submit only a number you are authorized to check. If a result affects account access, identity checks, or a business decision, verify through the carrier and the relevant account provider.