Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they have a phone number and want to determine who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you hope to connect with, so won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a phone number listing accessible to the community like with residential numbers. Clearly, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name states: it reverses the way you normally use a phone number listing. Rather than looking up a name to get to a phone number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Many people do not even know this is possible, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now possible by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves interested in a phone number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many disturbing calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, there is a way to identify exactly who is making the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can check out whitepages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be found by any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and want a name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to 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 accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly utilized by consumers on demand.
Much of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a trustworthy, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a small fee to gain access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and affordable, for the most part around a dollar or so for a single phone number search and about fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so be certain they are offering the information you want before giving them hard earned money.