How To Lookup By Cell Phone Number To Identify Unknown Calls

Anyone that has not done a lookup by cell phone number before is going to have a few questions once they set on this path. The reason is because wireless numbers are not searched in the same way as landline numbers.  But, don’t worry, what’s left of this article will clearly lay out the best way identify these calls.  Once you know the proper way to get a name and address for wireless calls, you will also know how to identify any kind of telephone call.

As convenient as mobile phones have made making and receiving calls, one would reasonably assume that it would be a fairly simple process to lookup by cell phone number.  All you ever really needed to do, and still need to do with a landline number is either open up a phone book or call 411.  But because there isn’t a public phone book or online directory that allows people to search wireless numbers, people still wonder exactly how to get this kind of search done.

More people every year are moving away from landline phone numbers in favor of using a wireless phone as their main way to communicate with a phone.  And this has made life simpler and easier in many ways.  Not only can you send and receive calls with these phones, but you can also exchange emails, send and receive text messages and pictures, and even surf the Internet with certain phones.  The only problem created by all this convenience is when we want to lookup by cell phone number.

But there are now more than a few ways you search wireless numbers with the aid of the Internet.  While all of these methods are worth a try, some of them will have a higher likelihood for success than others.  The first couple methods we’ll go over don’t cost anything but they will also be less likely to work.

The first method is where most people begin their search.  This is by using one of the Internet’s main search engines.  Yahoo, Bing, and Google are the 3 biggest players in this market.  Simply type the telephone number in quotations and add any other personal information you may know about the person into the search engine’s search bar.  For example, if you are searching the number 123-456-7890 and know the number originates from Chicago, you would type “123-456-7890”+Chicago into the search bar. 

Then press the “search” button and wait to see what comes up.  The success of this method depends on what type of personal information that person has input into the Internet.  Your best bet is when a person has left personal details on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

If the search engines don’t produce the desired results, you can try the next method that also doesn’t cost any money.  You can use one of the free mobile phone directories that are becoming increasingly more popular on the Internet.  However, many of these directories work on a strictly voluntary basis and/or require users to enter their own personal details into the directory in order to gain admission to these databases.  Although many of these directories have a steadily growing database, the chances of finding the person you are looking for are not especially good.