# `ip_country_differs_from_phone_country`: the IP address and the phone number name different countries

The request geolocates to one country and the number was allocated under another country’s numbering plan.

- Appears in: `flag`
- Billing: Free. The consistency analysis is arithmetic over answers already paid for and never costs a credit of its own.

As with the postal comparison, an anonymous, relayed or datacenter IP withholds the check rather than answering it.

A kept foreign number is the common innocent explanation, and it is very common.

**What to do.** Weigh it beside the rest of the answer; on its own it says only that two fields differ.

```json
{
    "comparison": "ip_phone_country",
    "left": {
        "signal": "ip",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "ES"
    },
    "right": {
        "signal": "phone",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "GB"
    },
    "result": "differ",
    "flag": "ip_country_differs_from_phone_country"
}
```

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/reasons/ip_country_differs_from_phone_country