Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you need to contact, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a phone number listing accessible to the public like with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another sort of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number directory. Instead of looking up a name to get to a number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this is available, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now possible by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who find themselves curious about a phone number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you get a lot of disturbing calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, you can discover just who is making the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can visit whitepages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed with any other resource other than a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a number but no more information and need a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time collecting information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly used by consumers whenever needed.
A good bit of this information retrieved is not easy to find and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, accurate website will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and reasonable, for the most part around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and about 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a substantial fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good websites out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate services, so ensure they actually have the information you want before giving them hard earned money.