Normally, when you recall someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their homes with the oversized paper phone books, but prefer to visit internet pages containing the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they receive a phone number and need to identify who it is connected to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the person you hope to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the community as with standard home phones. Apparently, developments in technology have made another type of phone number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you usually use a phone number listing. Instead of looking up a name to find a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
A lot of people do not even realize this can be done, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now possible by many businesses. It is also growing with individuals who find themselves interested in a phone number for whatever reason. It is a different take on the phone book that is likely to eliminate the demand for 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 solicitations or bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, there is a way to figure out just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
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 varieties of information that cannot be found through any other source other than a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and need a name.
- * When you have a 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 want.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time obtaining information, keeping it as updated as possible, and storing it all in an organized fashion so that it can be quickly utilized by consumers as needed.
Much of this information collected is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a trustworthy, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for accurate listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will be required to pay a small charge to have access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and reasonable, for the most part about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and around 15 dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a large charge for limited information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many valuable directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate services, so be certain they actually have the information you desire before giving them hard earned money.