We all know that mobile numbers are not published on regular phonebooks.
Yet people trace mobile phone numbers all the time! How does it really work when these numbers are not published on telephone directories? This is an extremely interesting question to analyze.
Various companies obtain cell numbers from various sources and have built their own private databases.
Some say these companies even 'lease' the numbers from the cellular carriers.
Anyways, the bottom line is that you and I can piggy back on these third party companies for our own mobile number tracing requirements.
Something to Beware of! Because a national cell phone directory was never made, none of these companies have 100% of the mobile numbers in the USA.
The poor databases have as little as (let's not even mention that embarrassing number) while the best ones have as much as 90% of the numbers in the country.
The more numbers they have, the better chances of you getting accurate and reliable results.
There are so many, which one do I choose? Great question! There are 100s of websites that do this (or claim to do this).
Irrespective of the different prices they charge the information that you get back is pretty much the same.
Anyways here are some things that you should look out for when you try to trace mobile phone numbers.

• The price - some sites charge as much as $29 per reverse lookup, this is absurd.
  Keep away from those.
  
• Database accuracy
• Frequency of updating the database
• Does it give a 100% money back guarantee? If not you should probably keep away from it because all the reputed companies give this