unable to use cell_phone, no API seems to expose it.

[dumbasPL]

I can't find a way to generate a cell_phone number for a specific locale. Most (if not all) of the locales seem to have formats for cell_phone but no API seems to expose it. Are they even supported, if not, why are there a bunch of format files for them? I know phone exists, but I'm interested only in cellphone numbers.

Is this just a case of missing the typescript definitions or what's the issue?

[matthewmayer]

You are correct, they are old, unsupported and not exposed by the current APIs. While you could try to access the raw definitions this is not recommended as these definitions might be removed.

If you're interested in adding the ability to generate mobile numbers only (in countries where this is possible - e.g. not the US, where mobile and landline numbers look the same), please see discussion at
#2883 where you could add your use-case.

In the meantime, you can fairly easily roll your own for a specific locale using other helper functions e.g. for en-GB numbers which start 07 you could use
faker.helpers.fromRegExp("07[0-9]{9}")