Cell Phone Numbers - Has Caller ID Lost Its Value?

Is your caller ID becoming worthless? Every day more of us see numbers on our display that we can't recognize: Cellular call. Incoming call. Inbound. Unknown. The list goes on. The question is why did our caller ID's stop working?

The answer lies in cell phones. Over the last decade or two, they have totally swept the world. Everyone has at least one, and land-line - aka "house" phones, are going away. This has created several problems:

1. Cell phones are rarely set up with proper caller identification from their owners.
2. The government does not allow cell phone to be listed in phone books.
3. Telemarketers and Pranksters use cell phones to mask their identity.

As you can see, all these problems relate to figuring out to whom a cell phone belongs. It's not like the 'old days' when we could just flip open the phone book and find our friends and family. Now we have to spend hours searching the Internet, usually to see something ambiguous like "Souther Bell Wireless Miami, Fl". This, of course, does not tell us anything about the caller.

How to 'Supplement' Your Caller ID by Looking Up Phone Numbers

All discussions about the value of caller ID aside, there is a way to find out whose calling you. And it does use the Internet. But it does not require hours of searching through repetitive, monotonous results. You want to use a 'Reverse Cell Phone Directory'. These are specialized databases which provide access to over 98% of cell phones, house phones, and other new technology calling devices. They are searchable from a single website by typing in the number and clicking a button. You can see the name, address, related business activity, background, and more for your chosen phone number.

Perhaps there is a reason why caller ID is now free on most cell phones. All discussions about its value aside - we still can find out whose calling us, if we pay a small fee for it.

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Author: George Wischler
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