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Joe - 27 Sep 2005 05:01 GMT
Quick question to the group. Is there a cell phone, phone type book. I want to look up an old friend but was told by others he only uses a cell phone. And has no land line.

Thanks,
Joe
Lena - 27 Sep 2005 09:38 GMT
In all the reverse lookups I've found, they indicate that cell phones
are not listed.  However, try a Google search on his name in
parenthesis (i.e. "John Smith", "John W. Smith") and see what you may
find.

Lena
Dean - 28 Sep 2005 22:42 GMT
I'm not sure you'll ever see an actual paper phone book for cell phones. First off, you have the area code thing. With porting now available, area codes are essentially meaningless, and as more people port their landline numbers and then move to another area, the book for a particular area code would include people from all over the country. If they couldn't divvy up cellphone subscribers by AC, how else could they? The John Smiths nationwide would take up a whole book...

I will be very sorry when the cellco's figure out how to do a directory, because immediately we will have to pay extra if we don't want to be listed. I'm sure they're trying very hard to work it up, as another cash cow.

Some of the calls I get are bad enough without adding wrong numbers to the mix.

Dean
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 Quick question to the group. Is there a cell phone, phone type book. I want to look up an old friend but was told by others he only uses a cell phone. And has no land line.

 Thanks,
 Joe
CharlesH - 29 Sep 2005 05:23 GMT
> I'm not sure you'll ever see an actual paper phone book for cell phones.
> First off, you have the area code thing. With porting now available,
> area codes are essentially meaningless, and as more people port their
> landline numbers and then move to another area, the book for a
> particular area code would include people from all over the country.

You cannot port to another area code; you can only port to another
provider in the same geographic "rate center". *LOCAL* number
portability means you can move your number between providers in a given
area, not that you can take your number to a new area. Of course, you
can take your cell phone anywhere, but calls to that number will be
treated as calls to its home location.
Dean - 29 Sep 2005 22:51 GMT
Yeah, point taken. I should have said it better.....

I know many people who travel all over the country who have cell phone area
codes which have no bearing on where they spend most of their time.

That's what I meant.

Dean
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>> I'm not sure you'll ever see an actual paper phone book for cell phones.
>> First off, you have the area code thing. With porting now available, area
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> phone anywhere, but calls to that number will be treated as calls to its
> home location.
 
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