Typically, when you are thinking about 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. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they have a phone number and want 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 need to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a cell phone listing accessible to the community as with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another type of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is just what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a phone number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you look up a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even know this is available, but with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now possible in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with people who get concerned with a number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book that may very well outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, it is possible to figure out just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can go to whitepages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed by any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and must find a matching name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted residential number and want to find 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 need.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily used by consumers as needed.
Much of this information compiled is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, up to date directory will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will be required to pay a small charge to have access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be low and affordable, typically about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and around 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service that demands a substantial charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings available to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they actually have the information you need before wasting hard earned money.