Usually, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to connect with, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing accessible to the public as we have with standard home phones. Apparently, technological advances have made another sort of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup means just what the name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number listing. Rather than looking up a name to get to a phone 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 know this is available, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with people who find themselves interested in a number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book that may very well eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, it is possible to figure out just who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these directories.
You can visit yellowpages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved with any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and want a name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted landline number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.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, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly accessed by people on demand.
A good bit of this information collected is not easy to find and some of it they have to pay for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to gain access to their listings.
The key to the fee is it should be small and affordable, usually about a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and around 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a substantial charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile listings out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they actually have the information you need before wasting your money.