Normally, 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 phone number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you need to reach, so offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing free to the community like with landlines. Clearly, developments in technology have made another sort of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what the name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a phone number directory. Rather than searching for a name to find a phone number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Many people do not even realize this is possible, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become curious about a phone number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book that may very well erase the need 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 collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, you can discover just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can check out yellowpages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved by any other source other than a more detailed service.
- * If you have a number but no other information and want a name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or other information.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 obtaining information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly used by people whenever needed.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a reputable, up to date listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a small charge to gain access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be small and fair, usually about a buck or so for a single phone number search and around fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a large charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so make sure they actually have the information you want before handing over your money.