Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and find their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their living spaces 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 know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you want to reach, so won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a phone number listing free to the community like with standard home phones. Apparently, developments in technology have made another sort of number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what the name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number directory. Instead of searching for a name to get to a number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even realize this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common by many businesses. It is also on the rise with people who get curious about a phone number for whatever reason. It is a new sort of phone book that could potentially eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, you can identify just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can go to whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved through any other source besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no more information and want a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and need a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out quite a bit of time compiling information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized fashion so that it may be quickly accessed by consumers as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not easy to find and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a trustworthy, up to date directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a small fee to gain access to their records.
The key to the charge is it should be small and affordable, typically around a dollar or so for a single phone number search and about fifteen bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a large fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites available to throw away time and money on inaccurate resources, so make sure they actually have the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.