Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their last name. These days most people do not even take up room 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 problems arise in most people's lives where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you need to connect with, so offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing free to the community as we have with standard home phones. Obviously, developments in technology have made another sort of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup means just what the name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number directory. Rather than searching for a name to get to a number or address, you look up a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this is possible, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now possible in the business world. It is also on the rise with people who find themselves curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book and may very well eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many disturbing calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, it is possible to discover just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be found by any other source other than a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no more information and need a matching name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unlisted landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be easily used by people on demand.
Much of this information retrieved is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a reputable, up to date directory will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will have to pay a nominal charge to have access to their records.
The key to the fee is it should be low and reasonable, typically around a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and around fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a high charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile websites available to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so ensure they actually have the information you desire before wasting your money.