| For finding your way to this article, I believe you | | | | For you to look succeed in finding unlisted phone |
| should know what an unlisted number is but in | | | | numbers, you have to come up with a fee. |
| case you don't know, an unlisted number is one | | | | Thankfully, the fees are negligible (depending on |
| that cannot be found on the white pages or any | | | | your pocket though). You can expect to pay fees |
| other phone directories out there. As a matter of | | | | in excess of $20, which is a fair price when you |
| fact all cellular or mobile phones are unlisted and a | | | | consider the benefits you will derive from finding |
| good number of landlines are also unlisted. This | | | | an unlisted phone number and also what these |
| scenario makes it a Herculean task out of trying | | | | companies go through to assemble these records. |
| to find an unlisted phone number. | | | | Until the much welcomed entry of the internet on |
| The reasons for keeping mobile lines unlisted are | | | | the world stage, finding unlisted phone numbers |
| very much founded. In fact as at today, | | | | was only meant for the wealthy and the highly |
| numerous attempts have been made at trying to | | | | connected and to do this you had to employ high |
| build a national cell phone directory, so that one | | | | profile detectives that will charge fees in the |
| could easily search for people using their mobile | | | | excess of a couple hundred dollars. The internet |
| phone but all these attempts have been made | | | | today has made things much easier for everyone. |
| largely futile. The argument is that cell phones are | | | | You can now do all these things right from your |
| meant to be a private affair. Also some people | | | | office or your living room at your own pace and |
| have argued that publishing the mobile numbers | | | | at any time you want. Of course this doesn't |
| will lead to an upward surge in the cases of scam. | | | | mean you can't hire some private eyes to do the |
| Think of what would have happened to you and | | | | job for you. But what is the point of paying |
| me if our mobile numbers were made easily | | | | $65-$100 dollars to someone when you can do |
| accessible by the numerous telemarketers out | | | | the exact same thing for $30 or less? The funny |
| there! So it is no surprise that mobile numbers | | | | thing is that the detectives may end up using the |
| have remained largely unlisted. | | | | same service you should have used! |