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2. 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 ...

3. Whitepages (company) - Wikipedia

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   Algard was searching for a friend's contact information, and the phone company gave him the wrong number. [4] He thought of an online email directory as an easier way to find people. [5] [6] Algard bought the Whitepages.com domain for $900, [7] [8] which he says was all of his savings at the time. [5]

4. Telephone numbers in Canada - Wikipedia

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   Numbers may be ported between landline and mobile. The rarely used non-geographic area code 600 is an exception to this pattern (non-portable, and allows caller-pays-airtime satellite telephony); some independent landline exchanges are also non-portable. Mobile phone providers support either CDMA or GSM; both are being supplanted by UMTS.

5. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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   1883: The Yellow Pages are invented. The business listings directory got its iconic look by accident in 1883 when a Cheyenne, Wyoming, printer ran out of white paper and made do with yellow paper ...

6. 411 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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   Direct-distance dialing (DDD) was first introduced in areas with common-control switching (panel and crossbar) in the 1950s.These areas had used 411 for directory assistance, and because of the ability of common-control switching to analyze the initial digits of a number in a "sender" before routing the call, these areas did not require the dialing of an initial 1 to initiate a long-distance call.

7. Area code 250 - Wikipedia

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   Area code 250 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver Island–home to the provincial capital, Victoria–and the province's Interior region.