Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their homes with the chunky paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they have a phone number and need to determine who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you hope to connect with, so are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a phone number listing free to the public like with residential numbers. Clearly, technological advances have made another variation of phone number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number directory. Instead of searching for a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Many people do not even know this can be done, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who get curious about a phone number for whatever reason. It is a new sort of phone book that may very well erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, you can identify exactly who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these websites.
You can visit whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed through any other means other than a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and must find a corresponding name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted residential number and need a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time collecting information, keeping it as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily used by consumers on demand.
Much of this information retrieved is not that simple to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For instance, a legitimate, accurate listing will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a nominal charge to gain access to their listings.
The key to the charge is it should be small and reasonable, usually about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any service asking for a large charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings available to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they can deliver the information you desire before wasting your money.