To be harassed by telemarketers, prank callers or even threatening and abusive callers is not what we want in life but often we feel powerless to act against these vermin who plague our phone lines.
What makes it even harder is that many now call from cell phone numbers making looking them up in a regular phone directory impossible! There is however an option available for those of us who need to find out the details of who owns a cell phone number if they have been harassing you, or even if you are just curious about a cell number that you might have found that might be important.
You see, you can reverse lookup cell phones and discover who owns them and more on the internet! As has been mentioned cell phone numbers do not show up on regular phone directories that can usually do a reverse lookup by finding the owner of a number rather than the other way around.
This is because of a thing call the public domain which all home phone number fall under meaning that the information about them is free for anyone to lookup which is why phone directories are free and easy to use and find.
Cell phone numbers on the other hand while not a secret nor protected by any law are not covered under the public domain and so there is no central authority that has a list of all cell numbers to give out to directory owners.
So how then can you do a reverse cell phone lookup online? The answer is that some people with an obsession with uncovering information decided to make their own reverse cell phone directory and went out to find cell phone numbers and details of the owners to make a database much like a regular phone directory for cell phones.
These databases were made up of many smaller listings from marketing firms and various other companies that had limited lists and combined them together to make a mega database that could be used by people like you and me to get the information we need!