Typically, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to locate an coworker who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and look up their name. These days most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use internet pages containing the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in most people's lives where they receive a phone number and need to identify who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed only to look up the name of the business or person you hope to contact, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a phone number listing free to the community like with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another sort of number directory necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number listing. Instead of searching for a name to locate a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number may be registered to.
Most people do not even know this is available, but with the invention of reverse phone lookup directories it is now widely used by many businesses. It is also on the rise with individuals who find themselves interested in a number for whatever reason. It is a new sort of phone book and is likely to erase the demand for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a high volume of disturbing calls, whether they be childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't clearly identify themselves but call nonstop, there is a way to discover just who is connected to the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can visit yellowpages.com and find a limited reverse phone lookup service for very basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed with any other means besides a more detailed directory.
- * When you have a number but no additional information and must find a corresponding name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and need a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com will not help with this type of information because it is not equipped with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time finding information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily accessed by consumers as needed.
Much of this information compiled is not that simple to obtain and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For instance, a legitimate, accurate website will have to pay cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. As with any business, it is understandable that you will have to hand over a small fee to have access to their listings.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and reasonable, typically about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and around 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory that demands a high fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many worthwhile directories available to waste time and money on incomplete resources, so ensure they actually have the information you need before wasting your money.