Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't spoken to in awhile or need to contact an acquaintance who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and look up their name. Yet in current times most people do not even waste space in their homes with the oversized 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 want to determine who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you hope to connect with, so offer little help. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a phone number directory accessible to the community as we have with residential numbers. Obviously, technological advances have made another type of number listing essential.
Reverse phone lookup is just what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you typically use a number directory. Rather than searching for a name to get to a phone number or address, you use a phone number to find the name or address of whoever the number is registered to.
A lot of people do not even know this can be done, yet with the development of reverse phone lookup services it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with individuals who find themselves concerned with a phone number for for various reasons. It is a different take on the phone book and could potentially outdate the need for phone books in the future.
If you get a lot of disturbing calls, whether they are childish hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, there is a way to figure out just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these services.
You can go to yellowpages.com and use a free reverse phone lookup directory for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be found through any other resource other than a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a number but no other information and need a matching 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 this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time finding information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly used by consumers as needed.
Much of this information retrieved is not easy to locate and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a trustworthy, up to date website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for accurate listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will have to pay a nominal charge to have access to their records.
The key to the fee is it should be low and reasonable, for the most part around a dollar or so for a one-time phone number lookup and around fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory which requires a large fee for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many good directories out there to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so ensure they actually have the information you want before handing over your money.