Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and find their name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the oversized paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you want to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a phone number listing free to the public as we have with landlines. Obviously, developments in technology have made another type of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what its name states: it reverses the method in which you typically use a number listing. Instead of browsing for a name to locate a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Many people do not even know this is available, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves concerned with a phone number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, there is a way to discover exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed through any other means besides a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and want a matching name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time collecting information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it may be easily utilized by consumers whenever needed.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to find and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, up to date directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The key to the fee is it should be low and affordable, typically about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and about 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a large charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate services, so make sure they are offering the information you want before wasting hard earned money.