Normally, when you recall someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the oversized paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and need to determine who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you want to connect with, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone phone book free to the community as we have with landlines. Apparently, developments in technology have made another type of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what the name states: it reverses the method in which you typically use a number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even know this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves concerned with a number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book that may very well outdate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call at all hours, you can discover just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved with any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a number but no other information and want a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted residential number and need a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time finding information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly used by people whenever needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, accurate listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a small fee to gain access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and affordable, typically around a buck or so for a single phone number lookup and about fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service that demands a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile listings available to waste time and money on incomplete services, so ensure they actually have the information you want before giving them your money.