Usually, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the chunky paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you hope to contact, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the public as we have with standard home phones. Obviously, technological advances have made another sort of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you typically use a phone number directory. Rather than searching for a name to find a number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number is registered to.
A lot of people do not even realize this is available, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now common in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with people who find themselves interested in a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and is likely to eliminate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, it is possible to identify exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found with any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and must find a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted residential number and need a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily accessed by consumers as needed.
A lot of this information retrieved is not that simple to find and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a legitimate, accurate website will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be low and fair, usually about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and about 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a substantial fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they actually have the information you want before giving them hard earned money.