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Mr. Cooper of Motorola caused quite a stir when back in 1973 he used his then 30 ounce portable phone to call one of his rivals at AT&T. Walking in the streets of New York he was making the first ever real cell phone call.

Not much later, in 1990, the customer base of the cell phone industry had already grown to a staggering one million members following the introduction of a second generation 16 ounce cell phone, seven years earlier.

The cell phone customer base today is larger than that for ordinary land phones, and with cell phones now weighing in at around 3 ounce, the cell phone is very much part of our daily life.

From Dad to Mom, to our teenagers, families throughout the world have embraced this new technology and it is now not uncommon to see our younger kids (less than 10 years old) receive their own cell phones!

Whilst the advantages of giving a cell phone to our younger kids are obvious, it should not be forgotten that there is an element of risk in that predators they meet online might indeed try to call them on their cell phone in order to get to know them better and possibly meet them in person!

Media reports of dire consequences for kids who eventually meet these people unfortunately abound and parents all over the land are understandably concerned and eager to do what they can to prevent this from happening in the first place, and at the very least report these people by calling the police or FBI if it does.

But cell companies do not willingly give out information which they consider private, and it can indeed be very difficult for anyone to be traced back using a cell phone number. What can parents do then?

It is possible to trace back the name and address of anyone who calls a cell phone by doing a reverse cell phone search and even though this is not a free service, at $14.95, it is unlikely to break the bank.

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