Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and want to determine who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you need to connect with, so offer little help. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the community as with landlines. Apparently, developments in technology have made another variation of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions exactly what its name states: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number listing. Rather than searching for a name to find a phone number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be registered to.
A lot of people do not even realize this is possible, but with the existance of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also on the rise with people who get concerned with a phone number for for various reasons. It is a more modern form of the phone book that is likely to eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you get a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, you can discover just who is making the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found with any other means besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no more information and want a corresponding name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished residential number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend quite a bit of time compiling information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it can be easily accessed by people on demand.
A good bit of this information compiled is not that simple to find and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a reputable, accurate website will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will be required to pay a small fee to gain access to their listings.
The key to the fee is it should be small and fair, for the most part around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and about 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings out there to waste time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they are offering the information you need before giving them your money.