Typically, when you remember someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to contact an old friend who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but prefer to visit websites which have 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 know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you want to connect with, and therefore offer little help. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a cell phone listing free to the public as we have with standard home phones. Obviously, technological advances have made another sort of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name states: it reverses the way you typically use a phone number directory. Rather than browsing for a name to locate a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
Many people do not even realize this is possible, 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 interested in a number for one reason or another. It is a new sort of phone book and could potentially outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get too many disturbing calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even solicitations or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, there is a way to figure out exactly who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these websites.
You can check out yellowpages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup service for the most basic information or for published landline numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be retrieved with any other resource other than a more detailed service.
- * When you have a phone number but no additional information and must find a matching name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished residential number and need a name, address, or additional information. Whitepages.com is not going to help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories spend quite a bit of time collecting information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily utilized by consumers on demand.
A lot of this information collected is not easy to obtain and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a trustworthy, accurate directory will have to purchase numbers from cell phone networks for updated listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is only reasonable that you will be required to pay a nominal charge to gain access to their information.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and reasonable, typically around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and about 15 dollars for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory that demands a substantial charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good listings available to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so make sure they can deliver the information you need before wasting your money.