Normally, when you remember someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an old friend who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and search for their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their homes with the chunky 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 receive a phone number and want to identify who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you need to reach, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a phone number directory free to the public as with residential numbers. Obviously, developments in technology have made another sort of phone number compilation essential.
Reverse phone lookup is exactly what its name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a phone number directory. Instead of browsing for a name to locate a number or address, you are using a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this is possible, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become concerned with a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and is likely to eliminate the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers or collection services who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, there is a way to identify exactly who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these services.
You can go to whitepages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be retrieved with any other means besides a more detailed service.
- * When you have a number but no additional information and must find a corresponding name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and need a name, address, or additional 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 directories put out a lot 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 accessed by people as needed.
A lot of this information compiled is not easy to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, accurate website will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will be required to hand over a small fee to have access to their records.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and affordable, usually around a buck or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a high fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good listings out there to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they can deliver the information you need before handing over hard earned money.