Are you trying to figure out who is calling you from that cell phone or the land line number? Or you just found a lost cellular number. May be somebody is disturbing you with stupid prank calls. There could be numerous reasons for you to know who owns a particular mobile, landline or any unlisted phone number.

But when it comes to mobile phones, it is difficult to trace as compared to landline numbers. You may ask why? Because cellphone numbers are not listed in free directories for privacy reasons.

In fact it is good that cellphone numbers are not listed in phone books otherwise we could end up receiving hundreds of calls everyday from telemarketers to sell us their stuff (most of the times useless stuff).

Now the question arises how could you trace the owner if the information is not listed in a phone directory. Most of the time people think that they can just find it through Google. Wrong. People generally don't leave their cell phone numbers on public websites so Google and other search engines could find them.

Well, you have a solution. Mobile numbers are listed in the internal database of phone companies. There are companies, which buy access to these databases from almost all cell phone companies and make a single large database containing current up-to-date information on almost all cellular numbers in the USA. Because phone companies charge money to get access to this database, there is usually a small yearly fee for unlimited reverse phone lookups.


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