Cell Phone Number Trace Facts

Are you looking for some cell phone number trace facts?  If you have ever received repeated mysterious calls from a telephone number you don’t recognize, there are number of ways to handle it.  You can either call the number right back and be done with it or you can consult a reverse telephone directory.

If the number happens to be a listed landline number, then just get on the White Pages website and your problem will be solved then and there.  This can be done for free.  If the number you are seeking information about happens to be a mobile number, then there are directories that cater strictly to a cell phone number search.

These directories get their data directly from all the major wireless carriers.  Carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint don’t offer a free directory to the public for the numbers they service.  But they do lease this information to online data brokers that make this information available to the general public. 

These directories allow anyone to obtain identifying information behind virtually all wireless numbers.  The best directories collect owner information behind unlisted, fax, and VoIP numbers as well.

You can find out the owner’s name, address, wireless carrier, names of possible relatives and neighbors, other phone numbers that belong to the owner, list of previous addresses, and more.

I have read more than my share of articles about whether a cell phone number trace can possibly be done for free.  Any article I have ever read that suggested it could be done for free recommended far-fetched methods that had the odds of succeeding somewhere between slim and nil.
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I only stumbled upon those articles after having tried to perform a cell phone number trace for free myself.  After spending the better part of a few hours in this effort, I was pretty much resigned to the fact that it couldn’t be done.  Maybe some super computer geek can figure out a way, but for the average person it just wasn’t going to happen.

The reasons why it can’t be done are simple.  Wireless numbers are still considered private information.  That’s it.  So, the owner’s of the data behind these numbers, the major wireless carriers like Verizon and Sprint, can do anything they wish with this data.

And what they have decided to do is sell this information to third party data brokers.  So, if these brokers have had to pay for the identifying information behind these mobile numbers, what do you think the odds are that they would make this information available for free to you or me?  And even more, how likely is it that a loophole exists to get around these facts?

So, once someone resigns themselves to the fact that access to these results will cost a small fee, the challenge becomes finding a trustworthy and reliable directory.  There are a few things to look for when choosing a directory to perform your cell phone number trace.

I would work with a site that, first of all, offers a full 60-day guarantee.  Secondly, never enter your own personal information into a site as a condition for receiving results yourself.  Don’t trust a directory that offers results for free.  Don’t believe me?  Try one of them and see if you get results of mobile number searches for free.  And, lastly, never pay a dime until you have been able to thoroughly search the directory’s database and are comfortable that your results are available.