When you have to find contact information for a person that you need to get in touch with him or she it is simple because there a lot of phone directories under different forms for different provider of telephone services and especially fixed phone lines and there have been create phone directories even by the companies which actually provide this type of services but also and by companies which specialized themselves only for directories .

If you talk about cell phone, even if there are many restrictions regarding the privacy of the people who own a cell phone number, there have appeared many non official cell phone directories for the majority of the companies which have large networks and a big number of clients .

The problem is when you have to deal with unlisted phone numbers but lately there has been a solution to this kind of problem . There have been created some web sites on the internet which are free reverse phone number directories but which also contain unlisted phone numbers so it can be call a sort of unlisted phone directory . On these websites you can find almost 80% of the total number of unlisted numbers and there has been a increasing also of cell numbers, there have appeared circa 35% such unlisted cell phone numbers .

Even if it is a wide range of such websites, all of them or at least a great part of them rely on accurate databases . This kind of service is extremely used by debt collectors, private investigators or detectives, even different non financial institutions, banks, different funds or even telemarketers because they need to find contact information about their clients who did not made their contact information public and available for any other phone directory

. Other important thing is the fact that many of these websites are actually free of charge but the quality of the information offered is high because there is real time information because the databases change really quick but it is been updated depending on the daily, weekly, monthly, annually changes and they can change the existent information, add some new information or even delete some of the information which is no longer accurate and a great part of the information are being verified by the workers of the system . Some companies sell such unlisted phone directory for such businesses as financial institutions and many funds, many banks or investment corporations .

It has been a total success the existence of websites which offer this kind of services with unlisted phone numbers because the majority of phone directories such as printed phone books or phone lines can offer only public information for their clients and it costs also a lot of money . In this way websites which contain this type of software and advanced applications can prove to be useful instruments and it can be used even by police for discovering the attempts of fraud such as the type of people who make credits with false information .

We hear all the time people speaking about phone directories, about how to find phone numbers and cell phone numbers for people that we have to contact and also for all types of businesses such as hospitals, schools, banks, insurances, real estate agents, doctors, lawyers, dentists or all kinds of supermarkets, retailers or shops .

One of the most used and most useful and very quick option which has become more and more popular especially in the last years is the web phone directory which represent a searching engine with searching fields where you can to fill in the information that we already know and the system will return the needed information .

On the internet , you can find a great variety of websites which host phone directories of different companies or there are many websites which belong and are created by the companies who provide fixed telephone lines or cell phones and on these websites you can find many categories and directories which have the numbers and the persons under whose names appear the phone numbers . One extremely popular phone directory is the criss cross phone directory and this type of directory is also named cross reference phone directory .

This is a very useful directory because rather than search a person’s phone number by filling in a searching field their name you can find the person’s name if you enter their phone number in blank box or something similar to a searching engine’s field .

This kind of website is also know as the reverse phone number and many companies host on their website along with the phone directory this kind of service which allows you to track down the number which has called you and you do not know the number and you do not have it saved somewhere .

This service appeared in the last years and has developed extremely fast because more and more people felt the need for having this kind of services and they started to demand this possibility to the providers of phone services and so it became a new opportunity of business for the companies but also for the providers of phone directories and also for the scam websites which have the only purpose to make you fill in your own contact dates and then create many databases with this sort of dates that eventually will be sold to a company or to someone who is interested in such dates such as debt collectors, banks, insurances agents or real estate agents .

Criss cross phone directory which is available on the internet registers daily the highest number of searches and also per uses because more and more people and also businesses and institutions want to track down the numbers that have appeared on their phone and they did not answer and so they want to make sure that they are interested in contacting those numbers back and they will not waste their money and time on phone calls which are not important for them .

All over the world there are many companies which provide phone services and automatically also phone directories . In many countries , there exist a local company which is in charge with this type of services . In Mexico , for example , there is the company Telmex which has been founded in 1947 when a group of investors made a collaboration with the Swedish company Ericsson .

The company did not last for long in the private area because the government bought it in 1972 and it become to be a government monopoly . But in 1990 the investor Carlos Slim in collaboration with a group of other companies such as : France Telecom , Bell Corporation bought the majority package of shares and the privatization took place and they made huge investments in the infrastructure , the network , they introduced the fiber optic wires, and also they started to extend all over the country . One year later the government sold the remaining share but although it was completely private it remained as a quasi monopoly .

The Mexican company provided many telecommunication services and they improve year by year their services so they reached the point when they offered : telephone services, internet access, television services . Because they operate with the majority part of the market and they provided the most part of the phone services in Mexico , they also created a phone directory so the Telmex phone directory was launched .

With the time , the company started to extend in the South America by taking advantage of the Latin culture that linked Mexico with the countries for there, so that there were created phone directories for all the countries were they provided phone services and for Mexico they made a list with the areas and cities . So when you enter the Telmex phone directory on the internet or in the printed form of the phone directory , you will find a list where you will see for example Guadalajara directory, Ciudad de Mexico directory, Acapulco directory, Puebla directory , which represent big and main cities of Mexico and also the capital cities of the countries from Latin America such as : Argentina , Columbia, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay . In this kind of directories , you will find the phone numbers for private persons who have telephone service from Telmex . You can also find directories for businesses, which are personalized for every country, every area, every city . The majority of them are organized in categories which is the domain in which the business activates or the type of business ; so you will find : hospitals, banks, pharmacies, dentists, lawyers, insurance agents, supermarkets, retailers, malls, shops and many other types of business .

This company is just one example of how a telecommunication provider extends his products and creates phone directories by taking advantage of the great variety of people who have chosen to use their phone services and in this way they will gain also clients .

Technology leaves the printed books behind and even the telephone lines . This type of product has been forgotten more and more by the new generations who are no longer interested in the directory phone numbers . For most of the business , public institutions , people you know , lawyers , doctors , magazines , malls or supermarkets there are hundred of websites where you can find contact information even if they don’t own an official site .

In the United States , there are many websites who provide contact information for whatever you may need ; there are also free web directories who provide numbers for persons and also for businesses and also web directories which are not free of charge . It is also important when you go for the free web phone directories to check if they offer accurate information because you do not have a policy and many of them can be a scam . The directories which have a tariff will provide you , for sure , with accurate and updated information because they invest money in this kind of service . One good example of free website which has a directory is dex phone directory or better said dexknows . localsearch where you will find a wide variety of phone numbers .

The searching procedure is extremely simply . The first step is to pick what you want to find : a business or a person . If you pick the one which is about business , you have to say what kind of business and where . You also have a list with the areas and cities for which the phone directories provides numbers . The dex phone directory offers numbers for : Denver , Las Vegas , Chicago , Minneapolis , Colorado , Phoenix , Seattle , Orlando , Omaha , Tacoma , Portland , Tucson , Salt Lake City , Mesa and others . Also there is a list with the most popular businesses that were searched during the time , meaning that you have many categories such as : restaurants . doctors , dentists , doctors , auto dealers , insurance agents , auto parts , veterinarians , auto services , real estate agents and many others . If you pick to find a person , you will be lead to another directory .

There you have to fill In the first name field , the last time search and you will also have a field where you fill the location , this means you have to know the city , state or zip code . In this section , you can also find the reverse phone directory where you can enter a phone number and the system will search it for you and will return the person who has the contract for that number and his contact information such as address , city , state , zip code .

This kind of websites prove to be a very useful instrument for all the people who want to find us this type of information .

Depending what you are searching for, it won't be that difficult to find within your immediate reach a phone directories company. If you need the Yellow Pages and White Pages last editions, apart from the print products you will have them all yours on the Web.

But prepare yourself because you may not always be sure that the landline or cell number you need is the right one. All the sales and advertising professionals that do wonders to collect such rightly impressive data have to contact the companies long before the pre-printing stages and follow all the steps to update the telephone numbers of the business offices they are hosting within their products' pages. It happens that many of these companies don't always update their contact info, for the reason that the assistant, the secretary or any other employee that had received the request might postpone until it will be too late to fill out the form sent by the advertising professionals or they might forget about it. And the final results reflect on their profits, without even them to suspect all the guilty factors.



In conclusion, the only thing you can do is call and see if the name, number and postal address are what you want to find. After all, the above mentioned situations are just exceptions. Worldwide business people go, on a regular basis, for a free listing option in all the directories. But, who wouldn't do that? The large exposure of their business in various categories and, when applicable, in different countries, assures a maximum reach of their companies' names to as many prospects as possible. The advertising today has become a good investment if one takes into consideration the harsh competitiveness all businesses are troubled with. One of the greatest things about these directories lies in the provision of maps that ease the quest and offer a precise identification.



Any business directory or local book directory has quite a long way to go until it will be reliable and successful, for people seem at times fed up with publicity issues. But with the payments always the end of the year brings along, when compared with the small cost of a listing or of an advertisement, it is obvious it was a wrong decision. When seeing in the listings their rivals' business information, most of the advertisers will enhance their promotional profile. Next time when you check for your friends, acquaintances or some businessmen' complete information make sure you have the latest editions of the print directories or go for at least one of the first five to ten results of a search on the web. But your search should be knowledgeable and precisely performed, with all the criteria checks.