Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their last name. These days most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they receive a phone number and need to determine who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you need to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the public as with landlines. Apparently, technological advances have made another type of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is just what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you typically use a phone number directory. Instead of searching for a name to find 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 possible, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become interested in a number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially outdate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, you can figure out just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and access 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 found through any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no additional information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished landline number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time collecting information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it may be quickly accessed by consumers whenever needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not easy to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, up to date directory will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will have to hand over a small fee to have access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and affordable, for the most part around a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a large charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings available to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they actually have the information you want before giving them hard earned money.