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What Makes You Pay For A Reverse Cell Phone Number Lookup?

Often we hit the search button looking for some free yet good phone number lookup sites. It goes beyond saying that we always crave for free services, but want the service to be better than paid services. The same nature goes for phone lookup also. But do you know absolute free phone lookup offers can be fraudulent scams actually? Or else they are not providing you the exact information and that is the reason why they are not charging anything.

There is a common notion that these phone number lookup companies somehow manage to collect all the phone numbers and details info for each of them. But the true fact is something different from this common belief. There is a particular method that is followed by all the phone lookup companies. Although the rules may slightly vary country-wise, but more or less it remains the same. Mainly, the phone number lookup companies do not actually possess any master phone book where all the numbers (both landline and mobile phones) are enlisted along with the information. They buy the database from different service telephone service providers and then resell it to people like you at lower rates.

But you might have seen that a landline phone number lookup is free everywhere unlike cell phone numbers. The main reason for this free service against landline numbers is that the number tracing companies do not have to pay anything to get the detailed for landline numbers. Now when they are getting it for free, why charging customers to buy the same? The scenario is different for cell phone numbers. Cell phone connection providers charge high rates for selling phone books comprising of cell phone numbers and other details to the reverse phone number lookup companies. So a phone lookup company has to pay each of the telecom service providers to get the detailed information and create the master database.

Naturally, they cannot sell it for free and thus charge a fraction of price for the information. Most often, the cost for a single cell phone number lookup is as low as $10. So, you can understand that without earning this little revenue, offering the same service will not be an easy task for the phone lookup sites.

The story does not end here. The phone number lookup sites also have to update their database time to time to include details of the newest numbers. Now you know what makes you pay for it.

by: Marcus Layde




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