When Alexander Graham Bell registered his patent for the telephone in 1876, he forever changed the way people would communicate. Direct communication between individuals was made possible even if those individuals were miles apart. Face to face interactions were no longer necessary, and none of us has looked back. The evolution of the telephone over the last one hundred and thirty years has been an on-going process of improvement that would have baffled even its ingenious inventors. The magic of rotary dials and copper wires is elementary compared to the wizardry of cellular technology. The freedom of conversing with friends and family over a telephone was astounding, but to have those conversations while on the go was the stuff of science fiction. Hardened New Yorkers were open-mouthed and staring when Martin Cooper walked by in 1973, talking on his prototypical cell phone. Ten years later, when the Motorola DynaTAC was commercially released, it was an instant success. Even its $3,500 price tag and bulky weight (a cumbersome 30 ounces) were not enough to deter consumers. Within seven years, there were one million cell phone subscribers in the United States.
Our affection for our cell phones has been increasing ever since. In New Hampshire, there were only 309, 263 subscribers in June of 2000. By June 2006, that figure had tripled to an astounding 1,049,150. With six carriers in the state to choose from, and with prices coming down while quality goes up, it is no wonder that so many people are choosing to buy a cell phone. In New Hampshire, literally, almost everybody has one!
With the service and packages available to consumers, the wide-spread use of cell phones is not at all surprising. What then, if anything, is missing? The answer comes in a thick book of thin pages: your directory. The one thing your land line gives you that your cell doesn't is a place for friends and family to go to find you. Your land line includes you in a massive database that anyone can access. But for cellular customers? No such luck.
Currently, there are no state-wide directories of cell phone users. The solution is reverse lookup. Reverse lookup services for cell phone numbers are available on the internet to consumers who wish to match a phone number with a name and address. If you prefer to screen all of your calls, if you need to locate an old friend whose last link is a cell phone number, or if you are carrying around a number with no idea why, this is the service you need.
For example, this ,ReversePhoneDetective.com enables the customer to access a database which identifies the name, address, carrier details, and phone connection status attached to that number. These websites abound and provide valuable information to the person who needs to know.
