Normally, when you are thinking about someone you haven't haven't heard from in awhile or need to contact an coworker who you don't have a phone number for, you simply go to the phone book and search for their name. Nowadays, most people do not even waste space in their living spaces with the oversized paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet things happen in in everyday life where they have a phone number and want to know who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the person you need to connect with, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so commonplace these days it gets even more troublesome since there isn't a phone number directory accessible to the public as with standard home phones. Apparently, technological advances have made another sort of phone number directory essential.
Reverse phone lookup is basically what its name suggests: it reverses the method in which you normally use a number directory. Instead of browsing for a name to locate a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to retrieve the name or address of whoever the number may be listed under.
A lot of people do not even realize this is possible, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now common by many businesses. It is also on the rise with individuals who become concerned with a phone number for for various reasons. It is a different take on the phone book and may very well erase the demand for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving too many unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, rude pranks, or even telemarketers and bill collectors who don't leave a message but call constantly, you can identify just who is connected to the calls by utilizing one of these services.
You can check out whitepages.com and use a limited reverse phone lookup directory for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two categories of information that cannot be accessed by any other resource besides a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and must find a name.
- * When you have a cell phone or an unlisted home phone number and want to find a name, address, or additional information. Yellowpages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you need.
Reverse phone lookup directories put out quite a bit of time collecting information, keeping it as accurate as possible, and storing it all in an organized listing so that it can be easily accessed by consumers on demand.
A good bit of this information retrieved is not easy to locate and some of it must be paid for in advance. For instance, a trustworthy, accurate website will have to pay cell phone companies for updated listings of numbers. In turn, it is understandable that you will have to pay a nominal charge to have access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be low and affordable, typically about a buck or so for a one-time phone number search and around fifteen dollars for more long term subscription to the |listings|directory|service}. Any site which requires a substantial charge for limited 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 can deliver the information you desire before wasting hard earned money.