Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and search for 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 circumstances occur in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and want to identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you need to reach, so offer little help. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone listing accessible to the community as with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another sort of number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what the name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Instead of looking up a name to get to a phone number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even know this is possible, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used in the business world. It is also on the rise with individuals who find themselves interested in a number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book and may very well eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, you can figure out exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can check out whitepages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed by any other means besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and want a name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time compiling information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it can be easily used by people on demand.
A lot of this information retrieved is not easy to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, up to date directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will have to pay a nominal fee to have access to their information.
The key to the charge is it should be low and affordable, typically about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under fifteen bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a substantial fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings available to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they can deliver the information you desire before handing over your money.