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 of course find the phone book and find their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they have a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you hope to contact, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone directory free to the public as we have with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another variation of number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions exactly what its name states: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number directory. Rather than searching for a name to locate a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number is registered to.
Many people do not even realize this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now possible by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who become concerned with a number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially erase the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you get a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't leave a message but call nonstop, there is a way to identify just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup website 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 source other than a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted landline number and need a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time compiling information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it may be easily utilized by people on demand.
A good bit of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, up to date listing will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a small fee to gain access to their information.
The key to the fee is it should be small and fair, usually around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service asking for a high charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites available to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so ensure they are offering the information you desire before giving them your money.