Anyone can do this.
Ekata reverse phone is a plugin inside the twilio plugins directory (or whatever they are calling it this week).
I wrote a unix command named 'lookup' which takes a single argument (phone number) and spits out "associated people" in a nice yaml output:
"is_commercial": false,
"associated_people": [
{
"name": "Ms. Amanda Joy Lastname",
"firstname": "Amanda",
"middlename": "Joy",
"lastname": "Lastname",
"relation": "Household",
"id": "Person.02884d55-980e-450c-a1e2-99999999999b"
},
I haven't checked but I'll bet I could get API service (for a fee) from Ekata and query these person IDs they are using and then fill out a whole social graph.It's a neat trick but other than confirming mobile=true and carrier:
"carrier": {
"mobile_country_code": "311",
"mobile_network_code": "489",
"name": "Verizon Wireless",
"type": "mobile",
"error_code": null
... I haven't found much use for it.