Usually, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you of course find the phone book and find their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use 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 need to connect with, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a cell phone directory free to the public as we have with standard home phones. Apparently, technological advances have made another sort of number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number directory. Rather than searching for a name to find a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Many people do not even know this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who find themselves curious about a number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and is likely to erase the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, it is possible to figure out exactly who is making the calls by utilizing one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved by any other resource other than a more detailed service.
- * If you have a number but no more information and want a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend quite a bit of time collecting information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it can be easily used by people whenever needed.
A good bit of this information compiled is not easy to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a trustworthy, up to date directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a nominal fee to have access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and fair, for the most part around a buck or so for a single phone number search and about 15 bucks for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a large fee for very little information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories available to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they actually have the information you need before wasting your money.