Typically, when you recall someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you want to contact, so are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a phone number phone book accessible to the public as with landlines. Clearly, technological advances have made another sort of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number directory. Instead of looking up a name to get to a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
Many people do not even know this is available, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup directories it is now possible by many businesses. It is also on the rise with people who become concerned with a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and is likely to outdate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you get a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, it is possible to discover exactly who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can check out whitepages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be found through any other source besides a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no more information and need a matching name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time collecting information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it may be quickly utilized by people whenever needed.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a legitimate, accurate website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to hand over a small fee to gain access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be low and reasonable, usually around a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around fifteen bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a large fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good websites out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they can deliver the information you need before handing over your money.