# Are there cell phone directories?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-cell-phone-directories/67345>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 2, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-cell-phone-directories/67345 "2001-06-02T18:20:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-cell-phone-directories/67345/1 "2001-06-02T18:20:32Z")

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Yesterday, I was trying to call my roommate on his cell phone, but had forgotten the number. I asked 411, but all they could give me was (our) home phone. Is there a website or somewhere else that lists cell phone numbers?

Sua

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2001, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-cell-phone-directories/67345/2 "2001-06-02T18:28:53Z")

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Speaking as someone who is on day two of having had his home phone disconnected, allow me to say that I hope not.

😃

Seriously, **Sua** , I think most cell-phone companies treat their customer bases as proprietary and tend to keep those numbers off the usual sites, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.

I first ran across this problem when somebody needed me to find a name/address to go with the phone number the had and not only was the number not in the criss-cross directory, the entire exchange wasn’t listed. I suspected immediately that it might be a cell phone number and told the person such.

Hope this helps.