Typically, when you recall someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to contact an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their last name. These days most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you hope 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 cell phone phone book free to the public as we have with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another variation of number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what the name states: it reverses the method in which you usually 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 even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even realize this can be done, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves curious about a number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers or collection services who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, it is possible to figure out just who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these websites.
You can visit whitepages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved through any other source besides a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a number but no other information and must find a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and need a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily accessed by consumers as needed.
A lot of this information collected is not easy to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a legitimate, up to date directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to pay a small fee to have access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and fair, typically around a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and about 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service asking for a large fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings out there to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they actually have the information you desire before giving them hard earned money.