Usually, when you recall someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their last name. These days most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the oversized 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 obtain 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 reach, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a phone number phone book accessible to the community like with standard home phones. Apparently, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what the name states: it reverses the method in which you typically use a number directory. Instead of browsing for a name to find a number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also growing with people who find themselves interested in a number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book that could potentially outdate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call at all hours, you can figure out just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can check out whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be retrieved by any other resource besides a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a number but no other information and need a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend quite a bit of time obtaining information, keeping it as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily used by people as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a legitimate, up to date listing will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to hand over a small fee to have access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be small and fair, typically around a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a substantial charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good directories available to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so be certain they actually have the information you need before wasting hard earned money.