Finding out who owns a cell phone number has never been easy.
In fact, until just a couple of years ago, it was incredibly difficult.
This is because unlike landlines, cell phones don't have a public directory which shows you exactly who owns which number, which means that you used to have to just had to ring up the called to see who they were.
Luckily, those days are over thanks to a revolutionary new service...
The problem in the past was that if you want to find out who your spouse was calling, or even who kept sending you text messages, there was no way to look up the cell number and match to someone's name and address.
This was because of several reasons, the first being that cell phones are not actually tied to an address, which means that anyone can own them.
This makes keeping track of the owner especially difficult.
The second is that since cell phones are constantly changing ownership (people get new ones all the time), the details of who owns them would need to change at a lightning pace, which just wasn't possible until now.
Luckily, the way to find someone's name from their cell phone number is actually pretty simple.
You see, several online companies have actually taken it upon themselves to provide us with online reverse cell phone directories which we can search easily.
They've basically bought up all the contact information they can find, from the likes of ad agencies, list brokers and public records, to find out people's cell phone numbers (by 100% legal means), and put them into a central database.
This means that you just need to log on to a reverse cell phone lookup site and then type in the person's number to find out exactly who owns it.