Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to communicate with an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their last name. These days most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to identify who it is connected to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you want to connect with, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone phone book free to the public like with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another type of phone number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what its name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a phone number listing. Instead of browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even know this can be done, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now possible by many businesses. It is also growing with people who become curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book that could potentially erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't leave a message but call constantly, there is a way to discover exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can visit yellowpages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be retrieved through any other resource other than a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and want a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time compiling information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it may be quickly used by people as needed.
Much of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for as well. For instance, a legitimate, accurate directory will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to gain access to their records.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and reasonable, for the most part around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service that demands a substantial fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good directories available to throw away time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they can deliver the information you desire before handing over hard earned money.