Usually, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their name. Nowadays, 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 problems arise in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you want to reach, and therefore 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 public as with landlines. Apparently, technological advances have made another type of phone number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name states: it reverses the way you typically use a number listing. Instead of looking up a name to find a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve 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 directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also on the rise with individuals who get curious about a phone number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book and could potentially eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, it is possible to identify just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can check out yellowpages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed by any other means besides a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no more information and must find a corresponding name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time collecting information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it may be easily utilized by consumers whenever needed.
A good bit of this information compiled is not easy to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their records.
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 under fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a substantial fee for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories available to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they can deliver the information you need before giving them hard earned money.