What’s special about reverse cell phone lookup?

If you want to do a reverse phone lookup on a land phone number, you could easily go to the White pages and do a free reverse phone lookup. But if you want to do a reverse cell phone lookup of a number belonging to a wireless carrier like Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, Cingular or any other cell phone company, the White Pages or other free reverse phone directories won’t be able to help you. Why? Because cell phone numbers are unlisted or unpublished!

Cell phone numbers are unlisted?

That’s correct, cellular phone numbers are not listed on free public telephone directories like the White Pages, Yellow Pages or Anywho.com. This is because mobile phone owner information is considered private and confidential. There is no phone directory (forward or reverse) for cellular phones and the chances are that there won’t be one in the future either. This is because wireless carriers are bound to protect the privacy of their customers and would not want to publish their customer database in a public database. That could potentially open up avenues for prank callers, identity theft etc. etc.

A cell phone number has some privacy associated with it and we don’t like to give it away to anyone and everyone. Most of us don’t want all our classmates or friends’ friends to find our mobile numbers in a jiffy, and call us and disturb at unwanted times. It’s nice to be able to control who gets to know your cell number and who doesn’t. Should our mobile numbers get published on free public databases, this privacy will go away. This is why wireless companies won’t publish our cell phone numbers on any kind of phonebook. Most of us appreciate this, but there are times when we wish we could easily do a reverse cell phone lookup, as we mentioned on one of the previous articles. But I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.

You can do a reverse cell phone lookup

Well the good news is that you CAN do a reverse cell phone lookup using special directory/database services and we’ll talk about that in a future article.