How To Know Your Own Mobile Number in Globe, TM, Smart, TNT or Sun

Memorizing our own mobile number seems to be the hardest part of owning a cell phone. In Philippines, Telecom Companies like Globe, TM, Smart, TNT and Sun provide 11-digit mobile number which is pretty long to memorize instantly especially when you have just bought a new sim card. And it's very hassle when you badly need to give your contact number to others or you need to reload your sim card.

Thankfully, there are more than a few simple ways to quickly look up your phone number even you are using old handset phone or a new smartphone like Android, iOS or Windows phone, and a sim card with load or even without load. Because in this tutorial, the methods on checking your sim card number are categorized by type of phone and load balance.

How To Know Your Mobile Number in Globe, TM, Smart, TNT or Sun Without Load (for Android, iOS and Windows Phone)

Android Phones

The process can vary from phone to phone, they are not all alike. The following method used is for Android Stock OS:
Go to Settings > About phone/device > Status. You might see the number listed here. If not, tap the SIM status to open another menu. Scroll down a bit here and you should see your number listed in My phone number. This might not work for some network or for old sim cards which will typically show Unknown. See other methods below.

iPhones (iOS)

Go to Settings > Phone and you should able to see your phone number displayed at the top of the screen.

Windows Phone

Open the Phone app > Tap on the three-dot icon in the bottom corner > Select Settings. At the top of the page, you will see your phone number.

How To Know Your Mobile Number in Globe, TM, Smart, TNT or Sun Without Load (for All Phones - Feature Phones and Smartphones)

Option 1: Contacting your Network Customer Service Hotline is usually free of charge. You can use this method to ask for your mobile number.
Globe Prepaid and Postpaid - dial 211
TM - dial 808
Smart Prepaid, Bro, Postpaid and TNT - dial *888
Sun Prepaid - dial 200
Sun Postpaid - dial 888
Sun Broadband - dial 333
ABS-CBN Mobile - dial 7878

Option 2: The other method is, you can ask your friend or family for your mobile number, your mobile number might be in their contact list.

Option 3: Remove your SIM card from your phone and check its back part. Usually, newer SIM cards have their card number embedded on the back of the card.

Option 4 (For Globe): You can use Globe's Text mo Libre ko feature. To start with, just send any text message to 2354+the recipient Globe number.

Sample format: text Hello and send to 235409171234567

The recipient will then receive a text message coming from you. From there, you should able to see your SIM card number.

Option 5 (For Sun Cellular): Just dial *#99# or *99# and press SEND/CALL. A popup menu will display your mobile number.

How To Know Your Mobile Number in Globe, TM, Smart, TNT or Sun With Load (for All Phones - Feature Phones and Smartphones)

If you have at least 1 PHP load remaining, just send any message to your friend's phone and ask him/her to read your phone number back to you from the inbox. If you don't have remaining load balance, you can borrow load via Globe Loan Load/TM Utang Load or Smart SOS Load services.

This is probably the best method to know your own mobile number, may it be Globe, TM, Smart, TNT, Sun, Cherry Prepaid or ABS-CBN Mobile.

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So that's it, following these methods will surely solve your question: how to know my mobile number in Globe, TM, Smart, TNT or Sun?

If you need to know also the network of your SIM, see this Complete List of Mobile Number Prefixes and find its first 4 digit in the list to determine its network.

Do you have other methods in knowing your own number aside from the methods listed above? You can share it by leaving your comment below. Thanks for reading!