Usually, when you remember someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they have a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you hope to reach, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a phone number phone book free to the community as with residential numbers. Clearly, developments in technology have made another variation of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions exactly what its name states: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number listing. Instead of looking up a name to get to a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even know this is possible, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now possible in the business world. It is also growing with people who find themselves interested in a phone number for for various reasons. It is a different take on the phone book that is likely to outdate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call constantly, you can discover just who is making the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can go to yellowpages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed by any other source other than a more detailed listing.
- * 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- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and need a name, address, or additional information.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 want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time obtaining information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily utilized by people as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not easy to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a legitimate, accurate website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will be required to pay a nominal fee to have access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and affordable, usually about a dollar or so for a single phone number search and about 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a substantial fee for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good websites available to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so ensure they actually have the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.