Typically, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the chunky paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they have a phone number and want to identify who it is connected to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you need to connect with, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a cell phone directory free to the community like with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another sort of number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even realize this is available, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also growing with people who find themselves curious about a number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they are childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, there is a way to identify exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can visit whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories 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 need a corresponding name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted residential number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time obtaining information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly accessed by consumers as needed.
Much of this information retrieved is not easy to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a legitimate, up to date listing will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a small fee to gain access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and fair, usually about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and about 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory which requires a high fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they can deliver the information you desire before handing over your money.