Article Directory :: Home & Family Articles How Reverse Phone Directories Work By Janelle Elizabeth Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 24Oct2008 Word count: 401 Viewed: 294 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site If you've ever needed to find out information about a caller beyond the basics that caller ID can provide, you've probably heard of reverse phone directories. These services allow you to enter a telephone number and then get information about the person who owns that number. But where does that information come from and why do a lot of services charge for the information? Well, the answers to those questions involve a few different things. First of all, land line listings are part of the public domain and are considered to be pieces of information free for anybody to access. These listings are just like a phone book, only they allow you to access name and address by looking up the phone number instead of the other way around. Cell phone listings, however, are different. Cell phone listings are considered to be the property of the companies who provide the cell phone service. This does not mean, however, that the information in those listings is private. Instead, cell phone companies can choose to sell the information to other businesses who then charge customers to access these purchased databases. Why Pay For This Service? So what do you get for your money if you subscribe to one of these services? Well, for starters you'll get a lot more information about the owner of the phone number than a free service will provide. In fact, there are a lot of reverse phone directory services on the internet that claim to provide free reverse directory services. The information that you receive from these free searches is suspect at best. I entered my own phone number into one of these free searches and the results that I got back did locate my number in the correct state, but listed the town listed is a town about 25 miles away. If you need to look up a phone number that has an area code and exchange that you recognize as either the town you live in or a town nearby, then you already know more than these free searches can provide for you. If all you need is the name and address of a land line number, go to the website of your local phone book and you'll get all you need at no charge. But, if you want to get information about a cell phone number, then be prepared to pay. Identify that mystery caller easily by using the Reverse Phone Detective - a simple to use online service for tracing the identity of callers through their phone numbers - whether listed or unlisted, landline or cell phone. EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Janelle Elizabeth

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