Free Reverse Phone Lookup - Get the Real Facts

Depending on your needs, find out if free reverse phone lookup websites are worth your time.
If you have seen the "free reverse phone look up" ads online, be aware that most are for cost free directories of LAND LINE numbers, NOT information for unlisted numbers or cell phones.

It's easy for someone to advertise these as they are openly published as a free resource and have been for a long time. It's the cell/mobile phone numbers that remain mostly private and are not given out by phone company operators. If you are looking for information about owners of cell phone numbers, Reverse Phone Detective is the service you want to head for.

Big companies work manually to collect the needed information from a variety of sources to create reverse CELL phone directories that are accurate. Because this process of searching, compiling, and creating these databases is not cheap, and very time intensive, the information is sold instead of offered for free. Like the rest of us, they need to pay their bills, too.

A lot of the free reverse phone directories, like Whitepages, end up paying really high fees to keep up the accuracy of their land line data bases. Then the costs are passed along to consumer through pop-ups, banner advertising, etc.

While there are several free reverse phone look-up websites out there, the problem is the limited information they have available. What these sites do is "decode" a cellphone number to assist you in finding out who the carrier is, the issuing location, and other information available publicly.

In that sense, it will not cost you anything to find out if the number belongs to a cell or land line, the name of the mobile service provider, and possibly what city and state the cell number has originated from. However, unless you really get lucky, the registered user's name and address for that cell phone number will not be available to you.

To access the easiest to use tool to perform a reverse phone lookup all you have to do is visit The Reverse Lookup Site.
   By Richard Ducharne
Published: 10/5/2009
 
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