Typically, when you remember someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to communicate with an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the oversized paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to identify who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you need to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a phone number phone book accessible to the public as we have with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another type of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what the name states: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number directory. Instead of searching for a name to locate a number or address, you are using a phone number to find 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 possible in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with people who become curious about a number for for various reasons. It is a different take on the phone book that is likely to outdate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or collection services who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, there is a way to identify just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can check out yellowpages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be found with any other means other than a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a number but no other information and need a matching name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and need a name, address, or additional information.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 need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized listing so that it can be easily utilized by people as needed.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained directory will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will have to pay a nominal fee to have access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be small and fair, typically about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and about 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a high fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories available to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they are offering the information you want before wasting hard earned money.