Reverse Phone Number Look Up

-What is the difference between landline phone and cell phone?

Sometimes people would like to run a reverse phone number look up to get the owner's information associated with a phone number, such as name, address, etc. Of cause it is better to get this information for free. The actual situation is, sometimes you can get it for free, but sometimes you can't.

In a reverse phone number look up, if the number belongs to a landline phone, then it is very likely you can get the information for free. If it belongs to a cell phone, then it is very likely you can't get it for free. Why?

Because the landline phone owner's information is public information. When you sign up for a landline phone (such as your home phone), the phone company will always ask if you would like to pay some extra fee to remove your information from the public list. Most likely you will say "no" in order to save money. Therefore, your name and phone number will be listed in the public directory. When people run a reverse phone number search by entering your phone number into a public directory, they can find it for free.

When you sign up for a cell phone service, the cell phone company will not release it to the public. But the cell phone company may have partnership with other reverse phone number look up companies, which provide reverse phone number search services to the public by charging a certain fee. When people want to find out your information from your cell phone, they can't find it in the public directory. They need to pay the fee to run a reverse cell phone number lookup in order to get the information.