Just when you think you have got the internet all figured out, you learn that you're wrong.
Take, for instance, public databases.
Once you have learned how to navigate through a public database, you can find out all sorts of information! You can do a reverse phone search and can find out who owns a specific phone number, and can learn more about companies and businesses, or people that you went to school with, than you ever thought you would.
Then you try to do a public database search to find out who owns a cell phone number that keeps calling you, only to wind up with no answer.
A cell phone number is not, and can not be, listed on a public database, but even most people who know that a cell number can't be published on a public database don't know why.
As it turns out, there are specific laws that prohibit telemarketers from calling cell phones.
While the same laws apply for telemarketers and pranksters who call land lines, they are doubly hard on those who call cell phones.
This is because cell phones, until recently, were a thing of convenience only, and weren't used by the masses.
Now that the price on them has gone down, everyone has one.
You can still find out who belongs to a specific cell phone number, however, by doing a cell phone number search on a specific website.
In order to find a phone number for a cell phone, you simply have to make sure that the reverse phone lookup website you are using is able to search for a cell phone number.
As long as it has that capability, it can find the number of any cell phone.