Usually, when you recall someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their homes with the oversized paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they obtain a phone number and need to identify who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you hope to connect with, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more complicated because there isn't a phone number listing free to the community as with residential numbers. Obviously, developments in technology have made another type of phone number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what the name states: it reverses the method in which you typically use a number listing. Instead of looking up 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 listed under.
Many people do not even realize this is available, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with people who get concerned with a phone number for for various reasons. It is a different take on the phone book that may very well erase the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and collection services who don't leave a message but call constantly, it is possible to identify just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to yellowpages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved with any other means besides a more detailed listing.
- * When you have a phone number but no other information and want a corresponding name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time obtaining information, ensuring it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it may be quickly accessed by people as 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, well maintained directory will have to pay cell phone networks for updated listings of numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a small fee to gain access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and affordable, usually 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 service which requires a large fee for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so ensure they can deliver the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.