Normally, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and look up their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they have a phone number and need to determine who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you want to reach, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more complicated since there isn't a cell phone directory free to the community as we have with residential numbers. Clearly, technological advances have made another type of phone number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a number listing. Rather than looking up a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even realize this is available, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup directories it is now possible in the business world. It is also on the rise with people who find themselves interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book that could potentially erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, there is a way to figure out exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other resource besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a phone number but no other information and must find a 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 equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time finding information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it can be easily utilized by people on demand.
A good bit of this information retrieved is not easy to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, well maintained website will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to pay a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The key to the fee is it should be small and fair, typically around a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and under fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings available to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they are offering the information you need before giving them hard earned money.