Normally, when you remember someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and search for their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the oversized paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and want to determine who it is connected to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you hope to reach, so offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone phone book free to the community as with landlines. Obviously, technological advances have made another sort of phone number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means exactly what the name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a phone number listing. Instead of looking up 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 may be registered to.
Most people do not even know this is available, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now common by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with people who find themselves curious about a number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and may very well erase the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call at all hours, you can figure out exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can visit yellowpages.com and access a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be found by any other source other than a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no more information and want a name.
- * If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend a lot of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily used by consumers whenever needed.
A good bit of this information compiled is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for as well. For instance, a reputable, accurate listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a small charge to gain access to their records.
The key to the fee is it should be small and affordable, usually around a buck or so for a single phone number search and about fifteen dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site asking for a large fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable listings out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate resources, so make sure they are offering the information you want before handing over hard earned money.