Usually, when you recall 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 simply go to the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have 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 identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you want to connect with, so won't help much. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more complicated since there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the community as with residential numbers. Apparently, technological advances have made another sort of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name states: it reverses the way you typically use a phone number directory. Rather than browsing 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 may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this is available, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common by many businesses. It is also on the rise with people who get concerned with a number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and may very well outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or collection services who don't leave a message but call nonstop, there is a way to identify just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other resource besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and must find 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 will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time collecting information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily utilized by people as needed.
A good bit of this information retrieved is not that simple to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, well maintained directory will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their listings.
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 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a large fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so ensure they actually have the information you desire before giving them hard earned money.