In years past, people relied on their thick paper phone books to find people. Many people today use their cell phone as their primary contact number. In fact, there are many people who no longer have a landline phone. Federal regulations prohibit wireless companies from creating a registry of your customer’s numbers, so how do you find someone?
The answer is quite simple. There are now many websites that allow you to search for someone by name or mobile number. Simply visit the site and type in your name and your contact information will be returned to you.
If you need to find someone’s information based solely on their cell phone number, then you need to do what is called a reverse cell phone trace. What is this service exactly? Well, it’s really very simple.
All you have to do is use one of the people search sites and enter the number you want to search for in the search parameter field and then press the Enter button. The site will return the name and address associated with that number. Be sure to enter the full number, including the area code.
This is the standard process for tracking a cell phone number in the United States, Canada, the Dominican Republic, and many Caribbean countries. If you are looking for an international number, you will also need to enter the country code for that specific country. (Of course, you can also find the standard country codes online.)
Reverse phone lookups like this may seem like an invasion of privacy, but they are not. In reality, there are many regulations and security locks surrounding these searches. In the future, wireless carriers may even be free to create yellow and white pages for mobile phones. That would allow a free registration of the numbers, but the online solution will still be generally easier.