Typically, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you of course find the phone book and look up their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and want to determine who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you hope to reach, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone phone book accessible to the public like with residential numbers. Apparently, technological advances have made another variation of phone number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number directory. Instead of looking up a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Most people do not even know this is available, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common in the business world. It is also growing with people who become interested in a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and could potentially eliminate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, you can identify just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can visit yellowpages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved with any other means besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a number but no more information and must find a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out quite a bit of time finding information, keeping it as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it may be quickly utilized by people whenever needed.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a small charge to gain access to their records.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and fair, for the most part around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a large charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings available to throw away time and money on inaccurate resources, so ensure they can deliver the information you need before handing over your money.