Finding Cell Phone Numbers -- Wandering Through Maze

By Author: Salvador Mays
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If you are being bothered by a caller on your cell phone, or have received a missed call and would like to know who placed the call, or if you want to call a person and do not have his phone number, the process to find cell phone number is quite difficult or next to impossible. There are privacy laws that govern the cell phone services and the service providers are prohibited from publishing the details of the person owning the particular number.

There are no directories by service providers online or offline for phone number lookup. There are a few directories by private agencies that do not contain updated information. There are a few other directories that are set up by enthusiastic individuals where a person wanting to make his cell phone number public can register and add him to the directory. There are a few private agencies that own the cell phone directories and one can pay a small fee to use the directory. There is a site known as the national cell phone number registry that is often used by private investigators and law enforcement agencies, which is the best of all the directories available to find cell ...
... phone number. One can try their luck on this site.

Off late some changes have been made to privacy laws and the service provider is supposed to provide the details of a cell phone number to law enforcement agencies or to the government. The situations that require the release of these details could be criminal intent, or investigation into a crime or conspiracy to a crime, or to trace a missing person or other such reasons to avoid dire consequences.

Often people use investigators to find cell phone number. These investigators do charge exorbitant amounts for their services. There are others who callback the number from another number to try and talk to the person and figure out his identity.

Even if one wants to find phone number of a person for good reasons, it is not possible unless that person gives his number to you or a common acquaintance shares the number with you.

If one wants to do an investigation on his own to find cell phone numbers, here is what can be done. If you have a cell phone number and would like to know the identity of the person, call the number and try to figure out, else call the customer service number of your service provider and ask them about the phone number. They will in all probability give you the service provider for that phone number and the approximate location from where the call came. If you know somebody in that area, that's the way to go. That's as far as you can go. If you want to find cell phone number of a person you know, you can try the registry or online directories or search on the web with the person's phone number, or as a last resort hire an investigator.

While the cell phones have intruded every aspect of our life, the irony is that the prevailing laws make it quite hard to find cell phone number or should I say 'the intruder'.

The process to find cell phone number is daunting due to the prevailing laws. However one can try the online directories, call service providers, do their own investigation or hire an investigator. Visit us: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Can-I-Find-Someones-Cell-Phone-Number?&id=1105975 .