Why does HouseCalls not offer a database feature to lookup the Name and Address corresponding to the phone number captured for each caller?
An increasing majority of the incoming phone calls to HouseCalls originate from cellular phones, and there is not yet available an official (or an effective unofficial) directory database listing Names and Addresses for cellular phones. We believe that the current 30% to 40% success rate of “database lookup of Name and Address for captured phone numbers” is not acceptable, and actually counterproductive by distracting focus away from timely follow-up of incoming calls. These comments are based on our experience, and on the following statistics from the Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. More than 150,000,000 wireline telephone number listings are available in the U.S. and Canada official directory database. Not included are the roughly 100,000,000 wireline telephone numbers which are unlisted by consumer choice, nor the listings for the more than 200,000,000 plus cellular telephone numbers. This is by FCC mandate. In other words, of the 450,000,000 total phone numbers only about 150,000,00
