Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a number for, you of course find the phone book and search for their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their homes with the oversized paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they receive a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you hope to connect with, 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 listing accessible to the community like with residential numbers. Obviously, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what the name states: it reverses the method in which you normally use a phone number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even realize this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now common in the business world. It is also on the rise with people who get interested in a phone number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book that is likely to eliminate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, you can discover exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found with any other source besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and need a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and need a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it may be easily accessed by consumers whenever needed.
Much of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a legitimate, accurate listing will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The key to the charge is it should be low and fair, usually around a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and about fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a substantial charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings out there to waste time and money on incomplete services, so be certain they can deliver the information you want before wasting hard earned money.