Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to contact an coworker who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and find their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and want to know who it is connected to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you hope to contact, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing accessible to the community as with landlines. Obviously, developments in technology have made another type of number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a number directory. Rather than looking up a name to locate a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Most people do not even realize this is possible, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with individuals who become interested in a phone number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't leave a message but call nonstop, it is possible to discover exactly who is making the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be found with any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a number but no additional information and need a 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- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information.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 likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out quite a bit of time finding information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized listing so that it may be quickly used by people whenever needed.
Much of this information retrieved is not easy to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will have to pay a small charge to gain access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and fair, typically around a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and about fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory which requires a large fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories available to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they actually have the information you desire before giving them your money.