Is a Peerless Network phone number VOIP?

Yes. Peerless Network is a carrier whose numbers are provisioned by software to VOIP platforms and apps, not sold as phone lines to people. When a reverse lookup on an applicant's number says PEERLESS NETWORK OF CALIFORNIA, LLC - CA, this is what it means.

What Peerless Network is

Peerless Network is a Chicago wholesale carrier, owned since 2022 by Infobip, the messaging company. It holds numbers through a separate company in each state, so a lookup shows "Peerless Network of Texas" or "Peerless Network of Florida". Its customers are VOIP platforms, outbound dialers and other carriers; it sells no service to individuals.

By the numbers

Every North American number belongs to a block of a thousand, and every assigned block is listed with its holder in NANPA's public thousands-block report. Some holders are also assigned whole exchanges of ten thousand numbers in the central-office code report. These counts are from the October 2026 reports. The area codes with the most Peerless Network blocks are 470, 707, 631, 209, 484, 774, which says more about where numbers are in demand than about where the applicant lives: a number from a wholesaler is picked from whatever area code the buyer asked for.

How it appears in a lookup

The record lists the legal entity that holds the block, often with a state suffix. Peerless Network appears under these names, most common first:

• PEERLESS NETWORK OF CALIFORNIA, LLC - CA (3,265)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF NEW YORK, LLC - NY (1,551)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF TEXAS, LLC - TX (1,515)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF FLORIDA, LLC - FL (1,174)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF ILLINOIS, LLC - IL (1,139)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF PENNSYLVANIA, LLC - PA (1,039)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF NEW JERSEY, LLC - NJ (952)
• PEERLESS NETWORK OF OHIO, LLC - OH (903)

Why an applicant's number lands here

Dialers and texting platforms are a large part of Peerless's business, and those are exactly the tools that generate bulk applications. A Peerless number on an application almost always came through a platform rather than a phone contract.

In one real pool of 1,455 applications to a remote engineering role, 60% of the phone numbers were in wholesaler blocks like these; a paid line-type lookup agreed with the public-record check on 99% of them. Why fraud rings use VOIP numbers explains the pattern, and the signals page gives the weight this reason carries in a score.

What this does not tell you

• Ported numbers. A number moved from one carrier to another keeps its original block in the public record. A real mobile number ported to a VOIP app still reads as the mobile carrier, and a Peerless Network number ported to a mobile carrier still reads as Peerless Network. Porting data is not public, so no free lookup can see it.
• Who the person is. The record names the carrier, never the subscriber. ApplySift uses the block holder as one signal among several and never rejects anyone on its own.

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