Free Reverse Cell Phone Search - The Reason Why You Cannot Do One

By Patricia F. Hammock


Just a couple days back I was answering questions on a well known answers website. At times when I am relaxing having a cup of tea I venture onto one or any other of the answers sites to see if I can help somebody with their computer problems.

On top of the listing of latest questions was somebody asking why they had to pay to reverse look up a cell phone number. It was a smart question because you wouldn't anticipate to pay to locate the owner of a landline number. You'd just go to the white pages web site and there is a lookup box right there on the first page.

Why isn't there a similar facility for looking up a mobile phone number? That set me wondering. Why is not there such a thing as a free mobile phone lookup?

In the event you possess a landline there are some stuff that allow the mobile phone companies to compile a listing of the owner of which number and just what your own address is. First of all, a landline is fixed. The telephone firm know where the phone line plus they know the address it is suited to. Next you might be, efficiently, under contract to the mobile phone provider. You need to pay your debts regularly. This only means that the phone firm knows who you are as the number is listed within the bill payer's name. These two things make it simple for the phone firms to give a list of who owns which number.

If you think about it, you will recognize that it's not very easy for mobile phones. You can purchase a prepaid cell phone on the internet. You can purchase a prepaid mobile phone in the store with your groceries. Nobody at the check-out asks who you are - they simply scan the box and sell you the phone. You could be anyone from anywhere. It's not even necessary to sign-up the number and also top-up using a credit card, although you can do this if you want. You can buy top-up cards in many shops and merely enter in the card number. It's all unknown.

That's why countless scammers use cell phones. Anyone can purchase one, anyone can use one, you could use it everywhere and also anyone can top it up.

I think you can begin to see how difficult it is to gather a real list of who owns which cell number and to give a reasonable lookup services. Yet these services are available. So - how do they manage to provide a reverse lookup service and why do you've to pay for this.

The reverse lookup services need to gather the data on their own. This implies getting in huge listings of cell numbers and collating them to offer meaningful information. No easy task. These listings are frequently compiled from websites or forms that ask people for their own cell numbers. If you do not particularly ask that the data is not passed on (generally by checking or unchecking a box) then your information may get added to one of the lists that's then sold to the reverse lookup providers.

The white pages data is provided as an extra because their customers are already paying for the provision of their own landlines. Reverse number providers are companies that exist solely to provide this service and have to generate money to pay their staff, keep their own web sites and buy in those important listings of information.




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