Discover Who a Phone Number Belongs to - Ways to Assist You in Your Sleuthing

Ever since the invention of the rotary phone, people have been trying to find out who a phone number belongs to. In the 'old days', if you didn't know who owned a phone number you could simply call your telephone company and they would look it up for you. This might have happened if you received a phone bill and were charged for a phone call to a number that you didn't recognize. This was obviously an extremely low-tech solution to your question, but it did work (unless of course it was a private number).

Enter the online world of the internet. Nobody calls their telephone company to find out who owns a phone number - they simply go online. Lots of times, you can do this simply by entering a phone number into any of the major search engines and getting back the phone owner information results. If the number in question belongs to a land line which would normally be available in a local telephone book, then this option would most likely give you what you are looking for - the owner's name, address, even the zip code.

However - with the ownership of cell phones outpacing the number of landlines, the availability of the identity of a cell phone owner can be a more difficult task. Information relating to cell phones is managed individually by each separate carrier (and there are many). Fortunately - for the truly desperate who want to know who owns a phone number, there are companies that purchase the phone number listing information from the individual carriers, compile this into a database and offer the information online for a nominal fee (to cover the expenses of running their business). One must be careful, however to select a company that stands by their results. A reputable company will not charge you if they are unable to find the number that you are looking for in their database.