Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and search for their name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and want to identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to contact, so are useless. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone phone book accessible to the public as we have with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another sort of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number listing. Instead of looking up a name to locate a phone number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now common 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 outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, there is a way to discover just who is making the calls by accessing one of these services.
You can visit yellowpages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other source besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and want a corresponding 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- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or additional information.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 going to help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time collecting information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it can be easily used by consumers as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for in advance. For example, a legitimate, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, 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 low and fair, for the most part around a buck or so for a single phone number lookup and under 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory that demands a substantial charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites available to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so ensure they can deliver the information you need before giving them hard earned money.