What is a Mobile Proxy?
A mobile proxy routes your internet traffic through a real cellular device on a carrier network, giving you an IP address indistinguishable from a genuine mobile user. This makes them the most trusted — and hardest to detect — proxy type available.
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How Mobile Proxies Work
When you send a request through a mobile proxy, the traffic is routed to a physical 4G modem connected to a cellular network. The modem makes the request using its carrier-assigned IP and returns the response to you. To the target website, the request looks identical to one from a real smartphone.
Unlike VPNs or datacenter proxies that route traffic through known server IP ranges, mobile proxies use IPs from the same pool as millions of real mobile users. There is no ASN-based blocklist that can stop them without also blocking paying customers.
Real Carrier IP
Every request comes from a genuine 4G/5G carrier IP -- the same IP type used by real smartphone users on the network.
Dynamic Allocation
Carrier IPs change naturally as the modem reconnects. Manual rotation triggers a new IP in 2-5 seconds on demand.
Highest Trust Score
Mobile IPs score at the top of every trust tier used by anti-bot systems, because blocking them means blocking real users.
Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) Explained
The secret behind mobile proxy undetectability is Carrier-Grade NAT. Mobile carriers face an IPv4 address shortage, so they assign hundreds of real users to a single public IP address simultaneously. When a website sees traffic from a mobile IP, it knows dozens or hundreds of real people may be using that same IP at the same moment.
Key structural advantage
A single Orange Polska IP may serve 100-500 simultaneous real users. Platforms have to tolerate high-volume traffic from these IPs by design. This is what makes mobile proxies the gold standard for any use case that demands detection resistance.
Mobile vs Datacenter vs Residential Proxies
| Feature | Mobile 4G | Residential | Datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust level | Highest (carrier) | High (ISP) | Low (ASN flagged) |
| Detection rate | ~0% | 5-15% | 60-90% |
| IP source | Physical modem | Home broadband | Cloud server |
| Ban risk (social media) | Near zero | Low-medium | Very high |
| IP rotation speed | 2-5 sec | Instant-slow | Instant |
| Dedicated IP | Yes | Rarely | Yes |
| Protocols | HTTP/SOCKS5/OpenVPN | HTTP/SOCKS5 | HTTP/SOCKS5 |
| Best for | Social, scraping, ads | Scraping, research | Low-risk scraping |
When to Use Mobile Proxies
Multi-account social media management
Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook trust mobile IPs unconditionally. Users report zero bans and zero phone verification prompts after switching from residential proxies.
Web scraping high-security targets
Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare-protected sites block datacenter IPs immediately. Mobile IPs bypass most behavioral and IP-based anti-bot systems.
Ad verification
Verifying Google Ads and Meta Ads from real mobile IPs shows exactly what real users see -- geo-targeted creatives, landing pages, and ad delivery.
SEO rank tracking
Track real search results from a real Polish mobile device -- personalization, localization, and CGNAT all produce results identical to actual users.
E-commerce price monitoring
Major marketplaces like Amazon show different prices by IP type. Mobile IPs produce the most accurate, consumer-facing price data.
How Polish 4G Proxies Work
Proxy Poland operates physical modems -- Real Android Phones and ZTE, Huawei, Samsung hardware -- with Orange Polska SIM cards. Orange is Poland's largest mobile network with 17+ million subscribers. Each modem is allocated exclusively to a single customer: you are the only person using that IP at any given moment.
IP Rotation Explained
IP rotation works by triggering the modem to disconnect and reconnect to the carrier network, obtaining a fresh IP from the carrier's DHCP pool. You can trigger rotation three ways: the dashboard button, a GET request to your unique rotation URL, or an API call from your automation script. There are no rotation limits.
Example rotation URL
GET https://proxypoland.com/api/rotate?proxy_id=YOUR_ID&token=YOUR_TOKENFrequently Asked Questions
What is a mobile proxy?
A mobile proxy is a server that routes your internet traffic through a real mobile device connected to a cellular network (3G/4G/5G). It assigns you the device's carrier IP address, making your requests appear to come from a genuine smartphone user. Mobile proxies are the hardest proxy type to detect because they share the same IP pool used by millions of real mobile users on that carrier.
How is a mobile proxy different from a residential proxy?
Residential proxies use home broadband IPs assigned to fixed addresses. Mobile proxies use carrier IPs assigned to mobile devices — these are dynamic, shared among many users via CGNAT, and trusted at the highest level by platforms. Mobile IPs score 2-5x better on trust metrics than residential IPs because blocking them means blocking millions of real mobile users.
Why cannot platforms detect mobile proxy traffic?
Carriers use Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT), meaning hundreds of real users share a single public IP simultaneously. Platforms cannot block a mobile IP without also blocking genuine customers. This structural feature makes mobile proxies fundamentally different from datacenter proxies, which are trivially flagged by ASN-based blocklists.
What makes Polish 4G proxies special?
Proxy Poland runs physical Real Android Phones and ZTE, Huawei, and Samsung modems on Orange Polska SIM cards — Poland's largest carrier with 17+ million subscribers. The IPs are indistinguishable from standard Orange mobile traffic. Combined with instant IP rotation (2-5 seconds), they are ideal for social media management, scraping, and automation targeting European markets.
What protocols do mobile proxies support?
Our proxies support HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, and OpenVPN simultaneously on dedicated ports. All major automation tools are compatible: AdsPower, Dolphin Anty, GoLogin, Multilogin, Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, Scrapy, and any software accepting standard proxy configuration.
How fast is IP rotation on mobile proxies?
IP rotation on Proxy Poland takes 2-5 seconds. You can trigger it via the dashboard button, a GET request to a rotation URL, or programmatically from your automation code. There are no limits on rotation frequency.