Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Free Reverse Cell Phone Search - Why You Can't Do One

By Arianna F. Egger


Just a few days ago I was answering questions on a well known answers site. Sometimes when I'm chilling with a cup of tea I venture onto one or other of the answers websites to see if I could help someone with their computer problems.

On top of the listing of latest questions was someone asking why they'd to pay to reverse look up a cell phone number. It was a sensible question simply because you wouldn't expect to pay to look up who owns a landline number. You'd just go to the white pages web site and there is a lookup box there on the front page.

Why isn't there a comparable facility for looking up a mobile phone number? That set me thinking. Why isn't there such a thing as a free cell phone lookup?

In the event you own a landline there are some things that make it easy for the mobile phone businesses to gather a listing of the owner of which number and what your address is. First of all, a landline is fixed. The phone firm know where the phone line and they are aware of the address it is fitted to. Next you might be, efficiently, under contract to the phone supplier. You have to pay your bills regularly. This 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 easy for the telephone firms to provide a listing of who owns which number.

If you consider it, you will recognize that it's not very easy for mobile phones. You can buy a prepaid cell phone over the internet. You can buy a prepaid mobile phone in the store together with your groceries. No one at the check-out asks who you are - they just 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 top up using a credit card, though you can perform this if you would like. You can buy top-up cards in numerous stores and merely enter in the card number. It is all private.

That is why so many scammers use mobile phones. Anyone can purchase one, everyone should take one, you may use it everywhere and anyone can top it up.

I believe you can start to see exactly how hard it is to gather a realistic list of the owner of which cell number and to provide a sensible reverse lookup services. However these types of services do exist. So - how do they manage to give a lookup service and also why do you've to pay for this.

The reverse lookup services have to gather the data on their own. This implies getting in huge lists of cell phone numbers and collating them to offer significant information. Not an easy job. These lists are often gathered from websites or forms that ask people for their cell numbers. If you don't particularly ask that the data is not handed down (generally by checking or perhaps unchecking a box) then this information might get added to one of many lists that is then sold to the reverse look up providers.

The white pages data is supplied as an extra since their clients are by now paying for the availability of their own landlines. The reverse number providers are companies that exist solely to offer this service and also have to earn money to pay their staff, keep their websites and buy in those all important listings of data.




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