{"id":3074,"date":"2012-06-15T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:30","slug":"consumers-want-cell-phone-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/consumers-want-cell-phone-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers want cell phone directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPR-N11082_673w_06_15.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3075\" title=\"Young brunette girl talks on mobile phone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPR-N11082_673w_06_15.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3075 lazyload\" title=\"Young brunette girl talks on mobile phone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SPR-N11082_673w_06_15.jpg\"><\/a>As many as 91 per cent of consumers now support the idea of a cell phone directory, according to a new poll conducted by CellPhoneNumber.com, which had more than 8000 respondents.&nbsp; CellPhoneNumber.com is a website that asks questions to cellular customers and gets answers about their wireless new and old cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>There have been previous attempts made to set up such a directory, but all have failed after coming under fire from privacy advocates.&nbsp; In 2004, the intention to create a cellular directory was announced by wireless carriers in the United States including the likes of T-Mobile, AT&amp;T and Sprint, but barely a year later the companies chose to pull away from this decision.&nbsp; Three years later in 2007 information commerce company Intelius created their own for-profit cell phone directory, only for the directory to be closed down just a few months later, with the company saying it was \u201clistening to its customers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent attempt at such a directory was made two years ago in 2010 when internet telephone directory Phonebooks.com launched its very own nationwide cell phone directory only to then close it again last year.<\/p>\n<p>A 2011 study showed that there were now more cell phones in the United States than people, and the president of PhoneBooks.com, Aaron Rosenthal, believes that such a directory is now only a matter of time.&nbsp; \u201cWith the growing number of households using cell phones only, a cellular directory seems inevitable,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 91 per cent of consumers now support the idea of a cell phone directory, according to a new poll 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