Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you need to reach, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a phone number phone book accessible to the community as with landlines. Clearly, developments in technology have made another type of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a phone number directory. Rather than looking up a name to locate a phone number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even realize this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who find themselves curious about a number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book and may very well outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, it is possible to identify exactly who is making the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can check out whitepages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved with any other resource besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a number but no more information and must find a name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished residential number and want to find a name, address, or additional information.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 updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend quite a bit of time obtaining information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily accessed by people as needed.
Much of this information compiled is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a legitimate, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to hand over a nominal fee to gain access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and fair, for the most part about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and about 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory which requires a high charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile websites out there to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they can deliver the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.