Typically, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their homes with the chunky paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they receive a phone number and want to determine who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you hope to reach, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a cell phone phone book accessible to the community as with standard home phones. Obviously, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what its name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to find a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this is possible, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now possible in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book that could potentially erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call at all hours, you can figure out exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be retrieved with any other source other than a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a phone number but no more information and need a corresponding name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted residential number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time collecting information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it can be easily accessed by consumers whenever needed.
A lot of this information collected is not that simple to find and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will have to hand over a nominal fee to gain access to their records.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and reasonable, for the most part around a buck or so for a single phone number search and about 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a high fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile listings available to throw away time and money on inaccurate services, so make sure they actually have the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.