Typically, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up 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 complicated because there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the community as with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another type of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions exactly what the name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Rather than searching for a name to find a number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even realize this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now common in the business world. It is also growing with individuals who get curious about a number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to eliminate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, you can identify just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can check out yellowpages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved through any other resource other than a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and want a matching name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and need a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend quite a bit of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly used by people as needed.
Much of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a reputable, up to date listing will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a nominal charge to have access to their listings.
The key to the fee is it should be low and affordable, for the most part about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service that demands a substantial charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they actually have the information you want before giving them your money.