Normally, when you remember someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to communicate with 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 chunky paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you hope to connect with, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone phone book accessible to the community like with residential numbers. Apparently, developments in technology have made another sort of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a number directory. Instead of browsing for a name to find a phone number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
Many people do not even know this can be done, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now possible in the business world. It is also growing with people who get curious about a phone number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book and could potentially eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, it is possible to figure out exactly who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a phone number but no more information and want a corresponding name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted landline number and need a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time obtaining information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly accessed by people whenever needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a trustworthy, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will have to hand over a small fee to have access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and affordable, typically about a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and about fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory which requires a high 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 resources, so ensure they can deliver the information you need before wasting hard earned money.