Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the oversized paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you hope to connect with, so won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone phone book free to the public as with landlines. Obviously, developments in technology have made another type of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a number listing. Instead of looking up a name to find a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with people who find themselves interested in a phone number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and may very well outdate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, it is possible to figure out just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to yellowpages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found by any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no other information and must find a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time compiling information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly used by consumers on demand.
A lot of this information retrieved is not that simple to find and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a legitimate, up to date directory will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to hand over a small fee to gain access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and fair, usually about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and under 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a high charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories available to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they can deliver the information you desire before handing over hard earned money.