Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an acquaintance 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 homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you want to connect with, so offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a phone number phone book accessible to the public like with standard home phones. Obviously, technological advances have made another variation of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to find a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even realize this is available, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also on the rise with people who find themselves concerned with a number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book that could potentially outdate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, you can figure out just who is making the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can check out 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 sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other source besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a number but no additional information and must find a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted landline number and need a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly accessed by people as needed.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a legitimate, accurate directory will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a small fee to have access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and fair, for the most part about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and about fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a large charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so ensure they can deliver the information you desire before wasting your money.