Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an coworker 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 waste space in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they have a phone number and want to know who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you hope to connect with, so are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a phone number directory free to the public as we have with landlines. Apparently, technological advances have made another type of number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what its name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to locate a phone number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even know this is possible, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book and could potentially eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, you can figure out exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can check out whitepages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be found with any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a number but no other information and need a corresponding name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and need a name, address, or other information.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 want.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time collecting information, keeping it as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly utilized by people as needed.
Much of this information collected is not that simple to find and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a trustworthy, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a small charge to have access to their information.
The key to the fee is it should be low and fair, usually about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and around 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service asking for a large charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so ensure they can deliver the information you want before handing over your money.