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 of course find the phone book and find their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have 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 identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you hope to contact, so offer little help. 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 as we have with residential numbers. Apparently, technological advances have made another sort of phone number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup means just what the name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a phone number listing. Instead of looking up a name to find a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
Most people do not even know this is possible, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now common in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with people who become concerned with a number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book and is likely to erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, there is a way to identify exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can go to whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found by any other source besides a more detailed service.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and want a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized fashion so that it may be easily utilized by consumers on demand.
A good bit of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a legitimate, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to hand over a small fee to gain access to their listings.
The key to the fee is it should be small and affordable, for the most part around a dollar or so for a single phone number search and around 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory that demands a high charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so ensure they actually have the information you want before wasting hard earned money.