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Not really, but there are companies making their money selling a mapping of phone numbers to real names[1]. It's an uniquely American thing (Canada does it too
by miki123211 1y ago
Not really, but there are companies making their money selling a mapping of phone numbers to real names[1].
It's an uniquely American thing (Canada does it too, but access is regulated much more tightly).
This one[2] I could get reliable results from for free, but it seems to be "under maintenance" right now. Twillio just offers it as a service at 1 cent per number.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAM
[2] https://www.sent.dm/resources/phone-lookup https://www.sent.dm/resources/phone-lookup
- kube-system 1y agoI'm surprised this is notable these days, because the mapping of numbers to names used to be a completely free service that was dropped off on everyone's front porch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory
- miki123211 1y agoPhone directories were one of these weird "one way" services. In principle, you could use them to map numbers to names, but the way they were designed, it was a lot more effort than using them to map names to numbers. That was deliberate I think.