Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they have a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you need to reach, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a phone number listing accessible to the public like with landlines. Apparently, technological advances have made another variation of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number listing. Rather than looking up a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
A lot of people do not even know this can be done, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who get interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book and could potentially outdate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or collection services who don't leave a message but call constantly, you can identify exactly who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these services.
You can go to whitepages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found through any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a number but no other information and want a name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time finding information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it may be quickly accessed by consumers on demand.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, well maintained listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a small fee to gain access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and affordable, typically around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a high charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate resources, so make sure they are offering the information you want before wasting hard earned money.