Usually, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an old friend 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 waste space in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet things happen in most people's lives where they have a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you hope to connect with, so won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more complicated since there isn't a phone number phone book free to the public as with standard home phones. Clearly, developments in technology have made another type of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup functions just what the name states: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number listing. Instead of browsing for a name to locate a phone number or address, you are using a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number is registered to.
Many people do not even know this is available, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used in the business world. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who become concerned with a phone number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book that could potentially erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many unwanted phone calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, there is a way to identify exactly who is connected to the calls by accessing one of these directories.
You can visit yellowpages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed through any other source besides a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a number but no other information and need a matching name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information.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 are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services spend quite a bit of time collecting information, ensuring it is as updated as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly accessed by people as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a legitimate, accurate listing will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is only reasonable that you will have to pay a small charge to have access to their information.
The key to the fee is it should be low and fair, typically around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and under 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site that demands a large charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile websites out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so make sure they actually have the information you desire before wasting your money.