Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you of course find 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 wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in in everyday life where they receive 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 reach, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a cell phone listing free to the community like with landlines. Apparently, developments in technology have made another variation of phone number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name suggests: it reverses the way you normally use a phone number directory. Instead of searching for a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even realize this can be done, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves concerned with a number for whatever reason. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially eliminate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, there is a way to discover exactly who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can visit yellowpages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed by any other source other than a more detailed service.
- * If you have a number but no additional information and want a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized fashion so that it may be quickly accessed by consumers on demand.
A lot of this information retrieved is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will have to pay a nominal charge to gain 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 search and about 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service which requires a high charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so be certain they can deliver the information you want before handing over hard earned money.