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where can i find a free list of all US mobile/cell phone number?
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: lihital-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
25 Aug 2002 23:30 PDT
Expires: 24 Sep 2002 23:30 PDT Question ID: 58514 |
where can i find a free list of all US mobile/cell phone number? |
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Re: where can i find a free list of all US mobile/cell phone number?
From: lisarea-ga on 26 Aug 2002 06:48 PDT |
Mobile phone providers are allocated numbers in "blocks," so potential numbers will fall within the given range, barring number portability, specialized numbers, forwarded numbers, etc. It's unlikely, however, that such a list exists, and if it did, it almost definitely wouldn't be made available to private parties. If this is for telemarketing purposes, note that the Telephone Consumers Protection Act (TCPA) puts restrictions on telemarketing in general, and more so on lines where the called party pays, which would include most mobile phones. The fines for violations can be very steep, including $500 per violation (and one call may contain several violations) to the receiver of the call, which can be tripled if it's established that the violator willfully and knowingly violated the TCPA, in addition to fines levied by the FCC. |
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Re: where can i find a free list of all US mobile/cell phone number?
From: siliconsamurai-ga on 26 Aug 2002 09:07 PDT |
I echo the cautions given by lisarea but would also like to say that I have been involved in testing various telephone databases for more than a decade and have never heard of what you are looking for. I too seriously doubt it exists and it certainly would not be free. Although phone lists are now less expensive, just a few years ago the U.S. white pages could cost upwards of $50,000 from one of the Baby Bells and that was just for the published numbers. You can now buy such databases for relatively low cost but they certainly don't contain cell phone prefixes. In fact it might be a violation of law to posess such a list if you had any intent of distributing it or even calling people on it. |
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Re: where can i find a free list of all US mobile/cell phone number?
From: donlee-ga on 26 Aug 2002 20:58 PDT |
A search on "NPA/NXX" should turn up info on which Wireless carriers are assigned a certain block of numbers. Lists are available to the carriers, but I do not believe they are free. |
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