Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to contact an old friend who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you need to contact, so are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a phone number phone book free to the community as with landlines. Clearly, developments in technology have made another variation of number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to get to a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even realize this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now common by many businesses. It is also growing with people who find themselves concerned with a phone number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book and may very well eliminate the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are receiving too many disturbing calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, there is a way to discover just who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these services.
You can check out whitepages.com and find a free reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed through any other source other than a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no additional information and must find a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time finding information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized fashion so that it can be easily accessed by consumers on demand.
Much of this information collected is not easy to find and some of it they have to pay for as well. For instance, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to hand over a small fee to have access to their listings.
The key to the fee is it should be low and fair, for the most part about a dollar or so for a single phone number search and around fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a substantial charge for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate resources, so make sure they can deliver the information you want before handing over hard earned money.