Normally, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from 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 name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing 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 identify who it is connected to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you hope to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a cell phone listing accessible to the public as we have with residential numbers. Apparently, technological advances have made another type of phone number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Rather than searching for a name to get to a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this can be done, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common in the business world. It is also growing with people who become interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book and could potentially erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call at all hours, there is a way to discover just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can check out yellowpages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed through any other resource other than a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no other information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time obtaining information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it can be easily utilized by consumers on demand.
A good bit of this information retrieved is not easy to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, up to date website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will have to hand over a small fee to have access to their listings.
The key to the fee is it should be low and reasonable, typically around a buck or so for a single phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a substantial fee for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good listings out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they are offering the information you need before handing over hard earned money.