There are services online that will allow you to perform a reverse telephone search in order to trace a phone number in order to find out the call location, owner, and even more detailed information.
A service like this can come in handy in case you miss a call, want to find out who owns a certain phone number, or to find out who that annoying prank caller is.
Of course, it would be wonderful if these services were provided directly by the phone providers, but unfortunately, we have to find these services ourselves.
I actually just found out about a great service after doing some research of my own.
I had been receiving prank phone calls from an unknown number for about three weeks.
The ongoing prank calls were annoying the heck out of me, so I found this service where I could do a reverse telephone search online.
I looked the number up and found the caller's name and address.
Unbelievably, the caller was located just five blocks away from me! As soon as we received the next call, my wife and I drove to the address and walked right up to the front door.
Apparently, there were a group of kids making crank calls from one of the kid's grandmother's house.
We let Grandma know what was going on, and she went on to catch the kids in the act.
Problem solved, all thanks to this reverse telephone search service.
In order to gain control over the use of your phone, a reverse telephone search can be very handy.
Yes, there are free services out there, but they often do not give you much information at all, and usually the small amount of information they do give you is outdated and/or incorrect.
The services that do charge you money only charge a small, one-time fee, and this is just so they can cover their costs of paying the cell phone providers for all the detailed information they can then provide to you.
Once you start using a reverse telephone search service, there are a number of different ways you can use the service because you now have capabilities not available to you before.