Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and need to determine who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you want to contact, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing free to the community as we have with residential numbers. Clearly, technological advances have made another type of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name states: it reverses the way you normally use a number directory. Instead of browsing for a name to find a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
A lot of people do not even realize this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who get concerned with a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and is likely to erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, you can discover just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can visit yellowpages.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 retrieved with any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a number but no more information and must find a name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted residential number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time obtaining information, keeping it as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly accessed by consumers whenever needed.
Much of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a legitimate, up to date website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a nominal charge to have access to their records.
The key to the charge is it should be small and fair, for the most part around a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and around fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a large charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile websites available to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they actually have the information you want before giving them your money.