The popularity of performing reverse cell phone lookups grows on a daily basis.
And no wonder, with many millions of wireless devices now in use, and quickly replacing land line communication.
Almost any popular online discussion forum, chatroom, or other social networking site is filled with repetitive threads asking a similar question over and over again: "How can I find out who this number is?!" Unfortunately, the answer isn't easy.
A large number of sites appear in Internet search engines for any given number, and many of them provide frustrating results at best.
Numbers are often mislabled as land line when in fact they're cellular.
Rarely do you find a name or address.
So how can all these sites be so apparently useless? Land-line vs cellular and VOIP Internet Telephony The problem is complex.
In fact, many of these sites are not useless.
Some of them are conventional phone book directories - the official listings of phone companies.
Land based units were easily found here in the past, before technology began changing dramatically in the mid 1990's.
Others are community reporting sites which congregate all known information about a specific number from private parties - usually to identify telemarketers.
These are more recent attempts, but end users often have limited resources to identify numbers.
Is it still possible to find out who an unknown caller is? Modern technology has brought a solution.
All service providers do in fact maintain databases of their users, regardless if they are cellular, WiFi, satellite, or otherwise.
These databases are made available to specialized commercial directories which can offer reasonable access in bulk quantities - to many people at once.
These third party services let you see if they have information about a number for free.
They very often do, and in great detail.
You can lookup the callers name, address, company, and service status within seconds.
This includes pagers, prepaid phones, unlisted and private numbers.
After getting their basic info, you can move on to greater detail.
Some of the possibilities include:
Old friends can be identified.
Neighbors can be screened for possible sex offenders.
Small business employees can be checked for reliability.
Ancestors and relatives can be found.
At this time, the specialized commercial directories remain the only reliable methods available to consumers by which to perform a reverse lookup on cellphones, VOIP, and other new technologies.
Access is reasonable, and the time you save looking is worth its weight in gold.
And no wonder, with many millions of wireless devices now in use, and quickly replacing land line communication.
Almost any popular online discussion forum, chatroom, or other social networking site is filled with repetitive threads asking a similar question over and over again: "How can I find out who this number is?!" Unfortunately, the answer isn't easy.
A large number of sites appear in Internet search engines for any given number, and many of them provide frustrating results at best.
Numbers are often mislabled as land line when in fact they're cellular.
Rarely do you find a name or address.
So how can all these sites be so apparently useless? Land-line vs cellular and VOIP Internet Telephony The problem is complex.
In fact, many of these sites are not useless.
Some of them are conventional phone book directories - the official listings of phone companies.
Land based units were easily found here in the past, before technology began changing dramatically in the mid 1990's.
Others are community reporting sites which congregate all known information about a specific number from private parties - usually to identify telemarketers.
These are more recent attempts, but end users often have limited resources to identify numbers.
Is it still possible to find out who an unknown caller is? Modern technology has brought a solution.
All service providers do in fact maintain databases of their users, regardless if they are cellular, WiFi, satellite, or otherwise.
These databases are made available to specialized commercial directories which can offer reasonable access in bulk quantities - to many people at once.
These third party services let you see if they have information about a number for free.
They very often do, and in great detail.
You can lookup the callers name, address, company, and service status within seconds.
This includes pagers, prepaid phones, unlisted and private numbers.
After getting their basic info, you can move on to greater detail.
Some of the possibilities include:
- Background checks
- Criminal, court, and police records
- Family and marital records
- Birth records and death notices
Old friends can be identified.
Neighbors can be screened for possible sex offenders.
Small business employees can be checked for reliability.
Ancestors and relatives can be found.
At this time, the specialized commercial directories remain the only reliable methods available to consumers by which to perform a reverse lookup on cellphones, VOIP, and other new technologies.
Access is reasonable, and the time you save looking is worth its weight in gold.
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