Normally, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact 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 chunky paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they receive 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 business or person you hope to connect with, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone directory free to the community as we have with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another type of phone number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions exactly what the name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a phone number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to find a number or address, you are using a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Most people do not even realize this is possible, yet 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 find themselves interested in a number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book that is likely to eliminate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, it is possible to identify just who is making the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can check out whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed through any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and need a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily utilized by people whenever needed.
A good bit of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a legitimate, up to date directory will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a small charge to have access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and affordable, for the most part about a buck or so for a single phone number lookup and about fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a substantial charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they are offering the information you want before handing over your money.