Typically, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their 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 circumstances occur in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you need to connect with, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone listing free to the community like with residential numbers. Obviously, developments in technology have made another type of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means just what the name states: it reverses the way you typically use a phone number directory. Rather than searching for a name to locate a number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this is available, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now common by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with people who get interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book that may very well outdate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, it is possible to identify exactly who is making the calls by utilizing one of these directories.
You can visit whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be retrieved with any other source other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no additional information and must find a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted 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 want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out a lot of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly used by people on demand.
A lot of this information retrieved is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a reputable, accurate website will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a nominal fee to have access to their information.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and affordable, for the most part about a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and about 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a large charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so ensure they actually have the information you need before wasting your money.