Free Cell Phone Directory - Empty Promises?

Online phone directories, like the White and Yellowcreating a centralized cell phone directory akin to the
Pages, can be a great source of information whenWhite Pages. Each cellular phone service provider
you need to find a person's or company's addresswould contribute to such a common database of
fast. But what happens when you don't have a namemobile numbers and their owners, and then it would
to look up? After all, when a name is the informationbe made available to the public for free. However,
you are looking for, an ordinary phone directory isn'tthe greatest concern about privacy resulted in the
of much help. In addition, neither the Yellow nor theidea to be abandoned. Additionally, the fact that
White Pages include mobile phone numbers... makingtelemarketers would gain easy access to cell phone
the job of tracing someone's identity, when all younumbers was unacceptable.
have is a telephone number, all the more difficult.Since you are generally charged for each call you
In those cases, a more effective and lessanswer on your mobile phone, the above concerns
time-consuming way to track down the cell phonedo have a lot of weight.
owner's information is through a specialized reverseThat does not mean that such a directory has not
cell phone directory. Before going into some detailsbeen created - in fact, it has been done. The only
about these reverse phone lookup services, I wouldissue is that putting such a directory together
like to briefly address one of the most commonrequires a lot of financial and time resources because
questions people have about cell phone directories.records must be compiled from hundreds of various
Specifically, is there a free reverse cell phonecommercial and official sources. As a result, such a
directory somewhere on the Internet?service - if legitimate - will charge a fee to recoup
Back in 2004 there was some discussion aboutthe costs.