Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Where Can I Find A Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Website?

By Angela Thomas

There are numerous places in the world wide web that look as if they offer free services or products but in reality do not. Are websites that offer reverse cell phone lookup services among those? The purpose of this article is to answer that question, once and for all.

We should first examine exactly what a phone number lookup is. If you have a phone number but have no idea whom it belongs to, you could do a "reverse lookup" to find out the phone number owner's information. The interenet offers many websites that permit lookups of residential and business phone numbers free of charge.

Now if the unknown phone number is a cell phone number or a fax number, a problem arises. Such numbers are guarded by wireless providers and telecommunications companies and are not made accessible to the free directories. The question then is, are these numbers ever accessible and if so, are they free?

Of all the websites that offer detailed reverse cell phone lookup services, generally speaking none of them are free. Sorry to disappoint...

There are those websites that specialize in reverse cell phone lookups. They centralize in one place the resources of the various telecommunications providers. Access to information from their databases requires a fee. A low fee is charged for a single search and a higher fee is charged for unlimited lookups. Each result includes the cell phone owner's name, address, connection status and carrier details. In addition to reverse cell phone lookups, they also allow lookups of residential, business, toll-free and even unlisted numbers! Searches are guaranteed as being both legal and confidential.

In addition to the exclusive reverse lookups websites, there are those that offer broader services. Those are not limited to people finder databases, public records databases that include births, marriages, divorces, deaths and adoptions, background checks, police records, sex offender records and more. A similar fee structure is required though it should be underscored that paying a fee for a reverse cell phone lookup, will not give you access to the more confidential data.

The world wide web is filled with websites claiming to offer free reverse cell phone lookups. But if you investigate further, you will find that they will always lead you to a website that charges a fee for the service. In many cases you can do searches for free but in order to view the actual record, which is the object of the search, you will be asked to pay a fee.

In closing, the answer to whether free reverse cell phone lookups exist is a No. The reason is straightforward. Telecommunications providers must abide by certain regulations that protect the privacy of their customers. Their customers, pay them for the right to privacy. The good news is that the fee is low so if you truly want to access a record, the price will not be an obstacle. - 16890

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