Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to locate an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their office or homes with the oversized paper phone books, but go to internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they have a phone number and want to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the business or person you want to reach, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more difficult because there isn't a cell phone directory accessible to the community as with standard home phones. Obviously, developments in technology have made another variation of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name states: it reverses the method in which you usually use a number listing. Rather than looking up a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Many people do not even know this can be done, yet with the existance of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become interested in a phone number for one reason or another. It is a more modern form of the phone book and could potentially outdate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they be annoying hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations and collection services who don't clearly identify themselves but call constantly, you can figure out exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can visit whitepages.com and access 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 found by any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a phone number but no more information and want a matching name.
- * If you have a cell phone or an unlisted landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com will not help with these sorts of information because it is not equipped with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out a lot of time compiling information, keeping it as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it may be quickly used by people on demand.
Much of this information retrieved is not that simple to find and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, well maintained directory will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will have to pay a small charge to have access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and fair, typically around 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 valuable listings out there to throw away time and money on incomplete resources, so be certain they can deliver the information you need before wasting hard earned money.