Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and find their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use 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 identify who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to contact, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a phone number phone book free to the public as we have with landlines. Apparently, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Many people do not even know this can be done, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common in the business world. It is also on the rise with people who become curious about a number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or collection services 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 utilizing one of these directories.
You can go to yellowpages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other resource besides a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no more information and want a name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend quite a bit of time collecting information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly accessed by people on demand.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a reputable, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a small charge to gain access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and reasonable, typically around a buck or so for a single phone number search and under 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a high charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile listings out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so be certain they actually have the information you want before wasting hard earned money.