diff --git a/phone-number-check-example-external.py b/phone-number-check-example-external.py
index 51a24a1..743001a 100644
--- a/phone-number-check-example-external.py
+++ b/phone-number-check-example-external.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # phone-number-example.py
 # tested in python 2.7.12
+# New version adpated to work with Python 3
+# tested in Python 3.6.1
 # implements phone number verification in Python
 
 # dependencies
@@ -9,14 +11,21 @@
 # copy the access token for the App below.
 
 import requests
-from urllib import quote
-from urlparse import urljoin
-
-number_list = ['+447860438585',
-               '+447513005998',
-               '+442079202200',
-               '+446543211234',
-               '+18136375000']
+from urllib.parse import quote
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+#Below are MSISDN's samples redacting the last 4 digits 
+
+number_list = ['+1201221XXXX',
+               '+1704661XXXX',
+               '+1315512XXXX',
+               '+1317946XXXX',
+               '+1918844XXXX'
+			         '+23324469XXXX'
+			         '+3579934XXXX'
+			         '+3630708XXXX'
+			         '+4179643XXXX'
+			         '+44748287XXXX']
 
 # this is the base url for the phone number verification service, last element in url is
 # replaced with the encoded phone number in international format.
@@ -25,12 +34,12 @@
 base_url = 'https://api.syniverse.com/numberidentity/v3/numbers/[phonenumber]'
 
 access_token = '{YOUR ACCESS TOKEN HERE}'
-
 headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
 
 for number in number_list:
     # make the url for the lookup including quoting the + correctly)
     url = urljoin(base_url,quote(number))
     response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
-    print 'status code: ' + str(response.status_code)
-    print 'response: ' + response.text
+    print ("Response = ", response)
+    print ('status code: ' , str(response.status_code))
+    print ('response: ' , response.text)