Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Directories

There are lots of reasons why you might want to look up a cellphone number. I'm not going to go into these reasons in this article. What I am going to cover is the problems you can run into when you try to do a free reverse cell phone lookup, and what to do about them.

But first, I want to define what a free reverse cell phone lookup actually is, so that we are on the same page. Reverse search is when you have a phone number, but do not know who owns that number, or what their address is. The way it works, is you type the phone number into a website, and it will come back with the rest of the details.

The way these websites work is that they contain a copy of the regular telephone directories are published by the phone companies. For most residential phone numbers and business numbers, there are all of websites you can use to find the information you looking for. But these websites are not really useful when you want to do a free reverse cell phone lookup.

The reason for this is that cell phone numbers are unlisted. That means that the telephone companies did not publish a list of cellphone numbers and their names and addresses. So these websites are not able to help you because they just don't have the information looking for.

This has left an obvious vacuum, as people still want to do free reverse cell phone lookups. As a result, a number of websites that popped up which claim to help you to a search. The problem with these sites as they have very few cellphone numbers, because they rely on people typing in their cellphone numbers when they visit the site. The chances of someone who you are looking for having tightened their phone number before you visit the site of very small. In the future, I expect this to change as these sites grow in popularity. But right now that is not much use to you.

Another way to do a free reverse cell phone lookup, which I discussed in a previous article, is to type the phone number into Google and see what comes up. Sometimes you'll find the persons information this way, but it depends on the phone number being previously published on the Internet, which only happens a small number of cases.

There are other websites which you can use for a small fee. The reason we have to pay for them is because they gather information from many different sources, which incurs a cast to them. Because so many people use these services, they are able to pass savings on to you, which means that these services are cheap. The information they have covers almost every single phone in the USA including cellphones. In addition, they list information about pages, faxes, and unlisted residential phone numbers. This means they are very likely to have all the information you need.

In this article, I've only really been able to touch upon the subject. I cover the different options you have on my website, which I'm linking to below. As I've mentioned, there are some options for you when you are doing a free reverse cell phone lookup, as well as some alternatives to speed the process up for you. I hope you found this useful.

Matthew Burns is the author of Internet Guider. He has published a guide to cell phone search resources to help you locate cell phone numbers on the Internet.