Usually, when you remember someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and look up their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the oversized 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 obtain a phone number and need to determine who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you want to connect with, so won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a cell phone listing free to the public as we have with residential numbers. Obviously, technological advances have made another variation of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name states: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Instead of searching for a name to find a number or address, you are using a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this can be done, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now possible in the business world. It is also growing with individuals who get concerned with a phone 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 lot of disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, you can discover just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be accessed through any other source other than a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and must find a matching name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information.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, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it may be quickly utilized by people as needed.
A good bit of this information compiled is not easy to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, up to date listing will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will have to hand over a small charge to have access to their records.
The key to the charge is it should be small and affordable, for the most part about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under fifteen dollars 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 good listings out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they are offering the information you want before handing over hard earned money.