A mobile proxy exits through a real cellular carrier, so the IP belongs to a mobile ASN behind carrier-grade NAT — shared, at any moment, with a large number of ordinary phone users. That shared-fate property is the entire product: blocking the IP means blocking real customers, so sites are far more reluctant to do it.
Gateway: mb.quanticdata.io:7777
export QD_PROXY_USER=your_user QD_PROXY_PASS=your_pass python3 carrier_check.py --country us --n 10 # which ASNs am I actually getting? python3 mobile_vs_resi.py https://target.example # is the mobile tier buying you anything? node app_api.mjs # mobile-shaped headers for a mobile API
| File | What it does |
|---|---|
carrier_check.py |
exit ASN, carrier and geo distribution over N requests |
mobile_vs_resi.py |
same URL through mobile, residential and datacenter — success rate and latency |
app_api.mjs |
calling a mobile app's own API with a coherent mobile fingerprint |
# rotating mobile exit in the US curl -x mb.quanticdata.io:7777 -U "USER-country-us:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json # hold one carrier IP for 15 minutes curl -x mb.quanticdata.io:7777 \ -U "USER-country-gb-session-b41c-sessTime-15:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
Same username-modifier syntax as every other QuanticData network — see quanticdata-proxy-quickstart for the full list.
Yes: mobile-only or mobile-first apps and their APIs; targets that block datacenter and residential ranges but leave carrier ASNs alone; anything where the block risk of a shared IP is the point.
No: ordinary page scraping at volume. Mobile bandwidth is the most expensive tier by a wide margin, and for most targets residential — or the Web Scraping API, which picks the tier for you — gets the same page for a fraction of the cost.
mobile_vs_resi.py exists to settle that question with numbers on your target rather than
with a vendor's opinion.
Latency is higher, and that is normal. A cellular hop adds real milliseconds. Raise your timeouts instead of retrying a request that was going to succeed.
A mobile IP with a desktop fingerprint is a contradiction. If you exit through a carrier ASN
while sending a desktop Chrome user-agent and a 1920×1080 viewport, you have made yourself more
identifiable, not less. app_api.mjs shows the coherent version.
- Mobile proxies · Residential proxies · Rotating proxies
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