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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 ...
2009: Movement to stop phone book delivery gains steam. Thanks to the 1984 breakup of AT&T, consumers started receiving piles of phone books ...
California's public utilities commission has ruled that it will no longer deliver doorstops residential phone books unless folks specifically ask for it -- a move that's expected to prevent 1,870 ...
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 114.2 million subscribers (and roughly 17th largest globally) as of September 30, 2024.
Verizon formerly served ex-GTE areas in parts of California, Florida and Texas before selling to Frontier Communications in 2016. Claro Puerto Rico , which serves every exchange in Puerto Rico, has been owned by the international telecommunications giant América Móvil since in 2007.
The term Yellow Pages is not a registered name within the United States and is freely used by many companies. Telephone directories using the Internet domain name "yellowpages.cc" (where cc is the ccTLD) exist in 75 countries. [6] They are edited by many different phone companies and directory publishers, mostly independently.
[2] Another service YellowPagesDirectory.com provides for users is the ability for anyone nationwide to “opt-out” of local telephone book delivery; their website offers a portal to The Local Search Association's National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice Opt-Out Site, [3] which allows anyone in the United States to cease delivery of phone books ...
The first automated toll-free telephone numbers were assigned with area code 800, created as inbound Wide Area Telephone Service (InWATS) in 1966 (U.S. intrastate) and 1967 (interstate). These terminated on special fixed-rate trunks which would accept calls from a specified calling area with either no limit or a specific maximum number of hours ...