Usually, when you recall someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their homes with the wasteful 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 obtain a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you want to reach, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the community as with residential numbers. Apparently, developments in technology have made another type of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name states: it reverses the method in which you normally use a phone number directory. Instead of searching for a name to find a number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
A lot of people do not even know this is available, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who get interested in a number for whatever reason. It is a new sort of phone book that could potentially outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of 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, you can figure out just who is making the calls by utilizing one of these directories.
You can check out whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other source other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no other information and need a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unlisted residential number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time collecting information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly used by people whenever needed.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will have to pay a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and fair, typically around a buck or so for a single phone number lookup and about 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a high charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites available to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so be certain they are offering the information you want before wasting your money.