Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and find their last name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they receive a phone number and want to determine who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you need to connect with, so won't help much. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing accessible to the public as we have with residential numbers. Apparently, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what the name states: it reverses the way you typically use a number directory. Rather than looking up a name to find a number or address, you look up 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, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves curious about a phone number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book that could potentially erase the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you get a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't leave a message but call nonstop, it is possible to figure out exactly who is making the calls by utilizing one of these websites.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be accessed by any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no other information and must find 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- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and need a name, address, or additional information.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 will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time collecting information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it may be quickly used by people on demand.
A lot of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a nominal fee to have access to their records.
The key to the fee is it should be small and reasonable, for the most part about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under fifteen bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a high fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories available to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so be certain they can deliver the information you need before giving them hard earned money.