Usually, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a 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 go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you hope to contact, so won't help much. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a phone number phone book free to the public as we have with landlines. Clearly, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Rather than searching for a name to locate 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.
A lot of people do not even realize this is available, but with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common by many businesses. It is also on the rise with individuals who become concerned with a number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, you can identify just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can go to yellowpages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed by any other means besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and want a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and need a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with this type 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 accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily accessed by people as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, well maintained listing will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will have to pay a nominal fee to gain access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be low and reasonable, usually around a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and around 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites available to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so make sure they can deliver the information you desire before wasting your money.