Typically, when you recall someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and find their name. These days most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the chunky paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and want 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 connect with, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace 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, technological advances have made another type of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup means just what the name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number directory. Rather than searching 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 possible, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also on the rise with individuals who find themselves interested in a phone number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to outdate 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 leave a message but call nonstop, you can figure out exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can go to yellowpages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed by any other resource other than a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information.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 equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services spend quite a bit of time finding information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it can be quickly used by people on demand.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, accurate directory will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to hand over a small charge to gain access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be low and fair, usually around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a substantial fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good websites out there to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so make sure they can deliver the information you want before handing over hard earned money.