Are There Free Reverse Cell Phone and Unlisted Number Searches Available?

Almost everyone who uses a phone has the request from time to time to find out who is calling you. In most cases you have got the phone number from the caller, but you have trouble to find a service identifying the owner of this number. (Cell phone or unlisted landline)

We are now in the year 2009 and you would assume that You can simply google for such a service for free. And indeed, you will find many so called free searches or lookup sites, mostly as paid sponsored ads on Google, Yahoo or MSN.

However, their advertising is absolutely misleading, as they will ask for money as soon you want to know more than just if the number is a landline or cell phone or any other very basic information. The bad news is, there is no such thing as free reverse cell phone number search or revere phone directory. You might get a free (or almost free) service if you are searching for a home or business phone number because these numbers are readily available in the normal phone book or online services. However, chances to find a free service for the search of a cell phone number is zero.

You can choose from a variety of reverse phone search engines. The quality of their database varies substantially.

All you need is the phone number of your caller and subscribe to the service of such a site and you will receive valuable information about the owner of this number within minutes and more importantly, easily online on your own computer.

As you can imagine, there is a huge effort and cost involved in collecting, storing and constantly updating such information and this does not come for free. With most of these sites, you can subscribe for a one off search, monthly, yearly or even unlimited searches

These reverse phone directories offer memberships from search to one day, to one month to even up to 5 years searches. I recommend to choose a service which offers at unlimited searches for at least one year.

There are more cases for the need of such a service than you may have thought of, here just a few examples:

- Find owner of cell phone or unlisted phone number

- Find address, carrier and location details of owner of cell phone number

- Discover who just prank called you

- Find out if a spouse has been cheating on you

- Use a reverse phone search instead of a private investigator

- Search by name to locate friends, relatives, lost love, classmates and more

This can be a great help to find out who exactly is on the other end of the phone.