French mobile number validation misses newly allocated ARCEP ranges

[Elie Terrien]

French mobile number validation appears to reject some valid mobile prefixes recently allocated by ARCEP.

According to ARCEP decision n°2025-1417 (11 July 2025), new mobile number ranges have been allocated in French overseas territories (e.g. 06 90, 06 91, 06 94, 06 96). 

Some of these valid numbers are not accepted by current validation logic (regex / metadata).

[Elie Terrien]

Hi,

Sorry, the issue wasn’t detailed enough. Here is the list of affected phones:

Guadeloupe / Saint-Martin / Saint-Barthélemy

• 06 90 26 → 06 90 76

• 06 90 47 → 06 90 49

• 06 90 5x

• 06 90 6x (except 66)

• 06 90 7x

• 06 91 31, 32, 35

Guyane

• 06 94 2x

• 06 94 31, 38

• 06 94 40 → 45

• 06 94 48, 49

Martinique

• 06 96 2x, 3x

• 06 96 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 48

• 06 96 55, 56

• 06 96 80 → 86

[Mandli Lakshmi (xWF)]

Hi,

Thank you for using libphonenumber!

We are supporting all the above prefixes as a valid numbers  in our library, see demo

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=0690260000&country=GP

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=0694260000&country=GF

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=0696200000&country=MQ

Regards,

Prasanna M

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[Elie Terrien]

Hi,

I'd like to report that the library does not differentiate between three French overseas territories when parsing mobile numbers. The following number ranges seems treated the same way, even though they correspond to distinct territories:

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=694163456&country=GP

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=694163456&country=GF

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=0696163456&country=MQ

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=0696163456&country=GP

Martinique should be MQ:

• 06 96 16, 
• 06 96 17, 
• 06 96 18, 
• 06 96 19, 
• 06 96 50, 
• 06 96 51

Guyane (French Guiana) should be GF:

• 06 94 12, 
• 06 94 13, 
• 06 94 14, 
• 06 94 15, 
• 06 94 98, 
• 06 94 99

Each of these prefixes is officially assigned to a specific overseas department, but the library currently does not distinguish between them. It would be helpful if the library could correctly identify the territory based on these prefixes.

Thanks in advance for looking into this.

Source: https://www.arcep.fr/uploads/tx_gsavis/08-1406.pdf 

Best regards,

[Kavitha Keshava (xWF)]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this issue. We created bug b/503220076 to triage this.

Please check it for future updates. 

Thanks & Regards,

Kavitha

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