Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the chunky paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur 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 business or person you hope to connect with, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace 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 variation of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Rather than searching for a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Many people do not even know this is available, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who find themselves concerned with a phone number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book and may very well eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving too many unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, you can discover exactly who is making the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can go to yellowpages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be accessed with any other source other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and want a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and need a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out quite a bit of time collecting information, keeping it as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized fashion so that it may be easily used by people on demand.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a reputable, accurate website will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a small charge to have access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and reasonable, typically about a buck or so for a single phone number search and about fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a high charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good directories out there to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they actually have the information you desire before handing over your money.