Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an old friend who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they have a phone number and want to know who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you need to connect with, so are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone listing free to the community as we have with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another sort of number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Instead of searching for a name to find a number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
Most people do not even realize this is available, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with people who become interested in a number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, you can figure out exactly who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can check out yellowpages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved by any other resource besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and need a name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time finding information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be easily used by people whenever needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, accurate listing will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will have to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their information.
The key to the fee is it should be small and fair, for the most part about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory which requires a large charge for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile listings available to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so ensure they can deliver the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.