Usually, when you are thinking about someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an coworker who you don't have a number for, you retrieve the phone book and find their last name. Yet in current times most people do not even take up room in their living spaces with the wasteful paper phone books, but would rather use websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet problems arise in most people's lives where they obtain a phone number and need to know who it is connected to. Phone books are designed on the knowledge of the name of the person you need to contact, and therefore won't help much. With cell phones being so popular these days it gets even more troublesome because there isn't a phone number directory free to the public like with standard home phones. Clearly, technological advances have made another type of number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup means basically what its name suggests: it reverses the way you typically use a number listing. Rather than browsing for a name to locate a phone number or address, you look up a phone number to locate the name or address of whoever the number is listed under.
A lot of people do not even know this can be done, but with the development of reverse phone lookup directories it is now possible in the business world. It is also on the rise with people who get curious about a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book and is likely to erase the need for phone books in the future.
If you are bothered by too many disturbing calls, whether they be childish hang ups, disturbing pranks, or even solicitations and bill collectors who don't reveal who they are but call nonstop, you can figure out exactly who is making the calls by tapping into one of these directories.
You can go to whitepages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for listed landline numbers, but there are two varieties of information that cannot be accessed through any other source besides a more detailed service.
* If you have a number but no more information and must find a name.
* If you have someone's cell phone or an unpublished home phone number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Whitepages.com is not likely to help with these sorts of information because it is not updated with the information you are searching for.
Reverse phone lookup services put out quite a bit of time obtaining information, double checking that it is as updated as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized listing so that it may be easily used by people whenever needed.
A lot of this information collected is not easy to locate and some of it they have to pay for in advance. For example, a reputable, well maintained website will have to purchase numbers from cell phone companies for updated listings of phone numbers. In turn, it is to be expected that you will be required to pay a nominal charge to gain 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 one-time phone number lookup and about 15 dollars for more long term access to the listings. Any site asking for a substantial charge for limited information delivered should be avoided.
There are too many valuable websites out there to throw away time and money on inaccurate resources, so make sure they can deliver the information you want before handing over hard earned money.