Normally, when you are thinking about 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 find their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their office or homes with the chunky paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and find what they need much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and need to know who it belongs to. Old style phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you want to reach, and therefore are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a phone number directory free to the public as with residential numbers. Obviously, technological advances have made another variation of phone number compilation necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what the name suggests: it reverses the method in which you typically use a phone number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to locate a number or address, you use a phone number to retrieve the name or even address of whoever the number is registered to.
A lot of people do not even realize this is possible, but with the development of reverse phone lookup websites it is now widely used in the business world. It is also growing with people who become concerned with a phone number for one reason or another. It is a different take on the phone book and is likely to eliminate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by a lot of unwanted phone calls, whether they are childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations or collection services who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, there is a way to identify exactly who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup website for the most basic information or for listed home phone numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be retrieved by any other means other than a more detailed listing.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and want a name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unpublished landline number and want to find a name, address, or additional information.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 directories put out quite a bit of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and saving it all in an organized listing so that it can be quickly accessed by people as needed.
Much of this information retrieved is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for as well. For example, a trustworthy, up to date directory will have to pay 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 have access to their listings.
The deal about the charge is it should be small and affordable, for the most part about a dollar or so for a single phone number lookup and about fifteen bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory that demands a substantial fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites out there to throw away time and money on incomplete services, so make sure they are offering the information you want before wasting hard earned money.