Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their last name. These days most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they receive a phone number and want to determine who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you want to contact, 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 listing accessible to the public as we have with landlines. Obviously, technological advances have made another type of phone number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup means just what the name states: it reverses the way you normally use a phone number listing. Instead of looking up a name to get to a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this can be done, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who become curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially eliminate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, you can discover just who is making the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can check out yellowpages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be accessed by any other resource besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no other information and need a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted landline 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 equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out quite a bit of time collecting information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly accessed by consumers on demand.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a reputable, well maintained website will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will have to pay a nominal fee to gain access to their information.
The key to the charge is it should be low and fair, for the most part around a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and about fifteen bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service that demands a high fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites available to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they actually have the information you need before wasting hard earned money.