Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an coworker who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and find their last name. These days 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 look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and want to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you need to reach, so offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone phone book free to the public like with standard home phones. Obviously, technological advances have made another sort of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what its name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Rather than looking up a name to get to a number or address, you are using a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be listed under.
Most people do not even know this is available, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common in the business world. It is also growing with people who find themselves interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and may very well erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you get too many unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, you can discover just who is making the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found through any other resource besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend quite a bit of time obtaining information, keeping it as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized fashion so that it can be easily accessed by people as needed.
Much of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a legitimate, up to date directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to pay a nominal fee to gain access to their information.
The deal about the charge is it should be low and reasonable, for the most part about a buck or so for a single phone number lookup and about fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good directories available to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so make sure they actually have the information you desire before giving them hard earned money.