Normally, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their last name. Nowadays, 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 most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and need to identify who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you hope to connect with, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing free to the public like with residential numbers. Clearly, technological advances have made another sort of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what the name states: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Instead of searching for a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even realize this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also on the rise with individuals who become interested in a phone number for whatever reason. It is a new sort of phone book that may very well erase the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, 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 find a limited reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be found by any other resource besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and need a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be easily accessed by people as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a reputable, well maintained directory will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a small charge to have access to their records.
The key to the charge is it should be low and reasonable, typically around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and under fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a substantial fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they are offering the information you want before giving them hard earned money.