Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tracking Down Cell Phone Numbers

By Mark Delmont

A cell phone number finder or forward phone search is the opposite of a reverse search. A reverse search is a search you can conduct when you know the cell phone number already. Once you have that information in hand, it is easy to find out more information. A cell phone number finder search is a bit more difficult.

Using a cell phone number finder search will require you to provide the person's full name in order to locate their cell number. It is a lot easier to get a person's home telephone or landline information than their cell phone number. The only other number that is difficult to locate is an unlisted number.

Since you only need to know a bit of information about a person to conduct a search for a landline number, and the information is published online and in telephone directories, it is legal. If there are 50 John Smiths, you may need to know where John Smith lives, exactly.

As cell phone numbers are not listed or published, it is not legal to conduct a cell phone number finder search. This sort of information is very personal and not readily available to the general public. This means that you need to use other resources to obtain the information.

One of the reasons that cell phone numbers are not widely available is that it would open up an untapped market to telemarketers. As cell phone providers charge their users for airtime, the cost of both incoming and outgoing calls would have to be paid for by the cell phone owner. This would not be a welcome annoyance; it could prove to be very expensive.

There are alternate cell phone number finder methods. A lot of these are actual services that you have to pay a fee to use. Once you pay a certain fee, you are allowed to conduct a certain amount of searches per month, or annually. The reason for the fee is pretty straight-forward. The companies that allow you to access the information have to pay in order to provide you that information. They pay their fee to the cellular providers to access their databases and then pass that cost on to you.

A reverse cell phone search provides the owner information if you have the phone number. That is not the only information you will find, either. If you pay the required fee for unlimited access, you can find out information such as the cell phone owner's occupation, cell phone provider and their past addresses.

You should be very careful before you pay for a cell phone number finder search service. Make sure you do enough research to assure that you will be provided with the information you seek once you pay your fee. There are literally thousands of these sites, so you need to do some investigation of your own.

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