Reverse phone book

[erick (Eric)]

Yes, I know one doesn't exist (well not that the general public can access), but I needed to try and work out the suburb a phone number comes from.

Yes, you can google the telephone number, but no good if it is a residential number. So you can google the first four digits followed by a few random sets of 4 numbers and see what hits you get.

But I found this website:-

http://search.findmap.com.au/

If you use the "Phone Number" field and put in the complete phone number, it seems to get a pretty good hit on the suburb.

(But, these days, I believe you can often port your number completely out of its area of origin? So that might defeat this approach.)

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Eric, what I used to do in the past was if I wanted to know a location by a phone number I would look up post offices and find which one had the same first 4 numbers.
It was always correct.

I used to do this when sellers didn't place their location in a classified ad.
But nowdays, many are mobile numbers

[joshhagger (Josh)]

This will start to get less accurate now as you can now port the number to other providers & VoIP accounts, so they may not be where you think they are.

Josh

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

Originally Posted by erick

(But, these days, I believe you can often port your number completely out of its area of origin? So that might defeat this approach.)

Yeah, if you use voip you can get a phone number just about anywhere, because of family in Melbourne I have a number over there (and one in QLD) . Occasionally I ring people here in Tassie only for them to ask me what I'm doing in Melbourne

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Well, it has been a lot of years since I last needed to do it

Eric, how about ringing the number and asking them where they are

[erick (Eric)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Eric, how about ringing the number and asking them where they

I didn't want to look like a complete dill because he had previously told me where he moved and I had forgotten. Spoke with him tonight. Will see him Sat morning. I didn't look like a dill - I had the suburb right

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by erick

I didn't want to look like a complete dill because he had previously told me where he moved and I had forgotten. Spoke with him tonight. Will see him Sat morning. I didn't look like a dill - I had the suburb right

[turbo_pascale (Rob)]

This may help:

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/australian_exchange_guide

[Barrykgerdes]

When I was very much younger. My grandfather told me how he wanted to know the owner of a telephone number. He started at the first page of the telephone book and worked his way through 'til he found it. I think there were only a couple of thousand telephones in NSW in those days.

Barry

[Barrykgerdes]

I bet those pesky Indian call centres have reverse telephone books and a lot of your other private info.

Barry