Find out the owner of a phone number?

[jmmbacon]

Does anyone know of a way to find out the owner of a cell phone if you know their number? I see many sites for reverse lookups for cell phones but they charge almost 100 bucks.

All of the free reverse phone number sites have a fee after you put in the phone number. Anywho.com or whitepages.com or any of that stuff does not work since you have to pay to get a report.

Are there any ACTUAL free ones out there?

[felgall]

I doubt it. The telephone lists on CD that allow reverse lookups are about 10 times the price of those that don't. I can't imagine they could get away with charging so much more if there were free services on the web that gave the same info.

[FriendInNeed]

try: http://www.phonenumber.com/reversephone.
I'm not sure if it works on ll numbers, but it hasn't asked me for money yet.

[ray326]

Cell phone numbers generally can't be reversed and reversing ANY number in the US is now iffy since the implementation of number portability.

[Tweak4]

http://aruljohn.com/phonelookup.pl
Has always worked reliably for me. For cell numbers, it only reports the carrier and city, but for land lines, it usually gives me a name.

[wamboid]

I just attempted to use both of the above mentioned sites using my own number. Both gave the provider and what city and state I was in, but neither gave my name.

[Tweak4]

I just ran my number, my parents, and my in-laws, and it gave a full name and address for each of them...
Was the number you tried a regular land line, VOIP or a cell?

[WE TICKLE]

wow have we got a program like this in the uk

[wamboid]

Cell, since that was what the poster asked about. Land lines are no problem.