Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and search for their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to reach, and therefore offer little help. 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 like with standard home phones. Apparently, developments in technology have made another variation of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions just what its name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number listing. Rather than searching for 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 is listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this can be done, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become interested in a phone number for one reason or another. 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 solicitations or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, you can discover exactly who is making the calls by utilizing one of these websites.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no other information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted landline number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not equipped 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 maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly utilized by people on demand.
Much of this information retrieved is not easy to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, well maintained directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will have to pay a nominal fee to have access to their information.
The key to the charge is it should be low and fair, for the most part about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory that demands a large charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories available to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they are offering the information you desire before handing over hard earned money.