Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to connect with, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a phone number phone book accessible to the community as with landlines. Apparently, developments in technology have made another sort of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a phone number listing. Rather than looking up a name to locate a phone number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be registered to.
A lot of people do not even realize this is possible, but with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also on the rise with individuals who become concerned with a number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book that 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 are childish hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call constantly, there is a way to discover just who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these websites.
You can go to yellowpages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be found by any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and want a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time compiling information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily accessed by consumers whenever needed.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to find and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a legitimate, accurate listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their information.
The key to the fee is it should be low and fair, typically about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they actually have the information you need before handing over hard earned money.