Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and find their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and need to determine who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you hope to contact, so are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more complicated since there isn't a phone number directory accessible to the community as with residential numbers. Obviously, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a phone number listing. Rather than looking up a name to find a phone number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Many people do not even know this is possible, but with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who get concerned with a number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book that could potentially erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't reveal who they are but call constantly, you can identify exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can check out whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be accessed with any other resource other than a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no more information and need a name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time finding information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly utilized by people as needed.
Much of this information retrieved is not easy to find and some of it they have to pay for as well. For instance, a legitimate, well maintained listing will have to pay cell phone companies 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 gain access to their information.
The key to the charge is it should be small and affordable, typically about a dollar or so for a single phone number search and around fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service that demands a high charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they are offering the information you need before giving them your money.