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who owns mobile number

Old_Git
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is there any way to trace who owns a uk mobile number .Its not a company number
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  • IAmWales
    IAmWales Posts: 2,024 Forumite
    The mobile company owns the number. You can work out who that is from the number range, unless it has been ported away from its original provider.

    If you mean the individual, then unless they've given it out online for some reason then no, you cannot trace it. The police are able to if they have reasonable grounds to suspect a crime has been committed, assuming the correct details have been given to the service provider by the user.
  • phillw
    phillw Posts: 5,656 Forumite
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    Old_Git wrote: »
    is there any way to trace who owns a uk mobile number .Its not a company number

    Have you phoned them and ask them?
  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,531 Forumite
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    This is also why PAYG numbers where you get a statement are not accepted by most banks as proof of address - especially as a lot of them were bundled with phones originally and were not registered as such with the network, plus in this day and age where you can switch network the first five numbers only tell you which network the number started life on - it could now be on any of the four major or 25 odd piggyback services.

    It is possible to triangulate a rough location of where a mobile phone is being used (indeed I think the emergency services do this if you phone them and for whatever reason you can't give an exact location) but that on its own can't prove who owns a particular number.
  • pmduk
    pmduk Posts: 10,677 Forumite
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    Actually Ofcom consider they own the numbers
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