Usually, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to communicate with an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to reach, so are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a cell phone directory free to the public like with residential numbers. Obviously, developments in technology have made another sort of number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Instead of browsing for a name to locate a number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even realize this is possible, but with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who become interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, it is possible to identify exactly who is making the calls by utilizing one of these services.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved with any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and want a matching name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.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 collecting information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly accessed by consumers on demand.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a nominal fee to gain access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be low and reasonable, typically around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service asking for a large charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they actually have the information you need before wasting hard earned money.