There are many reasons why you would need to do a reverse phone search. Perhaps you are being harassed with hang up calls. Maybe you suspect your spouse is cheating. Or you are concerned about the calls that your child has been receiving. Whatever your reason for doing a reverse phone lookup, you know that the person’s name and address is only a click away on a site like The White Pages.
Isn’t modern technology great?
However, if you are trying to do a cell phone lookup, the story is quite different. You see, there is really no such thing as a cell phone directory. While most land lines are available in the public domain, cell phone numbers are not disclosed by the cell carriers.
There is a good reason for this.
The reason you are not able to get on a free site and do a reverse lookup for a cell phone number is because most subscribers are still paying a per usage rate – in other words, they are paying by the minute. Imagine having to pay to talk to a telemarketer or some company that got your cell phone number from a public directory? The phone carriers would be overwhelmed with complaints and they would start losing customers.
For now, subscribers are relying on the phone carriers to make sure that their private details do not end up in the public domain. The companies do a good job of this and things are likely to stay like this for a while. However, the telemarketers are just waiting for the day that they are going to have public access to a cell phone directory.
The only exception to all this are legitimate companies that buy this information from the carriers and resell it to their customers. It isn’t cheap, and you normally have to pay per usage. This means that the telemarketers are not going to invest this kind of money – they will only take advantage if the information is free. Needless to say, they are waiting for the day that a cell phone directory becomes reality.
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