Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they have a phone number and want to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to contact, so are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a phone number listing free to the public as we have with residential numbers. Obviously, technological advances have made another sort of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what the name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a phone number directory. Rather than looking up a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Many people do not even know this can be done, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now possible in the business world. It is also on the rise with people who find themselves curious about a phone number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book that is likely to erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving too many disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call constantly, you can figure out just who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can check out yellowpages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed through any other means besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and want a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unlisted 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 need.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend quite a bit of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it may be quickly accessed by consumers as needed.
Much of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to hand over a small fee to gain access to their records.
The key to the charge is it should be low and affordable, typically about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and about fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a substantial fee for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so be certain they actually have the information you desire before handing over your money.