Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you want to contact, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a phone number listing free to the community as we have with landlines. Apparently, technological advances have made another type of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions just what the name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Instead of looking up a name to get to a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even know this is available, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now common in the business world. It is also on the rise with individuals who get curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book that could potentially 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 or collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, you can identify just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can visit yellowpages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be retrieved through any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and need a matching name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time obtaining information, keeping it as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it can be easily used by people as needed.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, accurate listing will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a nominal charge to gain access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and affordable, for the most part around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and around fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a substantial charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile listings available to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they are offering the information you want before handing over hard earned money.