An apparatus and method for obtaining IRDB information for a mobile communication device in a multi-service telecommunication service provider environment. The apparatus includes a table stored in a memory, the table containing a plurality of ESN features associated with mobile telecommunication devices for a plurality of wireless markets, the ESN features being compared with an ESN acquired from a mobile communication device in a multi-service telecommunication service provider network for determining an up-to-date IRDB template to be downloaded to the mobile communication device. The method includes receiving an ESN from a mobile communication device; querying a table containing a plurality of features associated with a mobile telecommunication devices for a plurality of wireless markets in accordance with the ESN received from the mobile communication device; and selecting an IRDB template from an IRDB database based on the ESN received from the mobile communication device and the features contained in the table.