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2. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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   Thanks to the 1984 breakup of AT&T, consumers started receiving piles of phone books—upwards of 10 per address in California—from regional companies that all wanted their directories to be the ...

3. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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   A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...

4. List of United States telephone companies - Wikipedia

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   Telephone and Data Systems, (through its subsidiary TDS) serves mainly rural areas in parts of 36 states. [3] Altafiber, which serves the greater Cincinnati area, and Hawaii due to its acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom [4] was not included in the Bell System breakup of 1984 because the former AT&T held only a minority stake in that company.

5. YellowPagesDirectory.Com - Wikipedia

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   YellowPagesDirectory.com is an online search engine and telephone directory. They encompass yellow (business) and residential (white) pages and currently feature over 28.5 million business listings throughout the United States. [1] Users of the site are able to add, edit, and delete their Business and Residential listings.

6. The Residential Phone Book's Number Is Up - AOL

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   Long relegated to a makeshift foot stool or door stop, the residential phone book (a.k.a the White Pages) is finally getting the official disconnect notice. Major telecommunications companies have ...

7. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.