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Concerning Cell Phone Number Search

By Guy Degruy


When is a reverse phone service necessary?

If you have a phone number - cellular or land line number - and you want to know the name and location of the owner but the number cannot be found in the white pages or phone directories, you would need a specialized reverse phone lookup. These kind of services work by getting access to the databases of subscribers of different mobile phone operators and phone companies. They compile all these sources of information to be able to give their users the capacity to go through a database with almost all phone numbers in the USA. Land line numbers as well as unlisted numbers and cellular numbers are part of this database of.

Privacy issues prohibit these information to be divulged to the public for free and this is clearly indicated in the agreement terms between these reverse phone lookup services and the phone companies that are involved. To verify certain information, this is why a valid credit card or paypal account is necessary to register and have access to these services. This would ensure the companies that information cannot be used for illegal purposes such as stalking. These phone companies also charge lookup services a certain amount for getting access to their database. In turn, these expenses are augmented by requiring a subscription fee.

There must be other alternatives to this paid reverse phone lookup service, or?

However, if we want to avoid additional expenses for these services, you have other alternatives. You may make use of Google or Yahoo search engines, or check the number in public white pages or phone books. However, cellphone numbers or unlisted numbers are not open to the general public so if that is what you are looking for, you are probably going to get no results. Don't be discouraged, though. It's still worth a try.

What data are you expecting to find if you subscribe to a cellphone lookup service?

One, the cellphone owner's name and address. Additional data may also be provided by some lookup services, such as the list of household members.

How do you use a reverse phone lookup service?

Just enter the phone number that you want to search for in the form provided in the site. It's quite simple. Immediately, most lookup services would respond with the following free information: - Information about the number, like if it is a cellular phone or a land line number.

- The city and the state where the phone number is registered.

- Confirmation whether other information regarding this number is available

If you want to know the owner of the land line or mobile phone, a regular subscription fee would be necessary. Most of the time, this covers the entire year. The subscription fee as mentioned in this article, is the company's way of making sure that the services they are providing are used within legal bounds.Are the services provided by reverse phone lookup legal?

As long as the information that you obtain from use of these services are used for legal purposes, yes, there is nothing illegal about this service. The lookup service prohibits any company to use the data obtained from them for telemarketing.




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