Typically, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to contact an coworker who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you need to contact, so are useless. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a phone number directory free 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 the name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even realize this is possible, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who get curious about a phone number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book and may very well eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, you can discover exactly who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be found by any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a number but no other information and must find a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time compiling information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly used by people as needed.
A good bit of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a legitimate, well maintained website will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is understandable 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, typically around a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a substantial fee for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they are offering the information you need before handing over hard earned money.