The state Utilities and Transportation Commission today announced that landline telephone providers will no longer be required to provide customers with printed “white pages” directories — those fat ...

. The change, which takes effect Jan. 1, will save about 2,200 tons of low-grade paper, spokesman Lee Gierczynski said. Verizon had distributed about 12 million books in the state each year. The ...

Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

Verizon got approval to stop delivering them in New Jersey. The company wants to phase them out in Philadelphia next. New Jersey regulators have given Verizon the green-light to stop publishing the ...

Alas, the poor phone book. Once, it was the cornerstone of American connection, an indispensable resource people relied on to find pizza shops, plumbers, and the number of the cute girl in math class.

Are you trying to find someone you’ve lost touch with? Are you afraid of signing a business deal with a new partner who you don’t know at all? You don’t have to hire a private investigator to get the ...

Q: Is there anywhere you can get a telephone directory of white page listings for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County and the surrounding area like we used to receive? I want a people listing directory! As ...

Q: How do I get a telephone number for a family member? I live in another county that does not list Harford County, Md., telephone numbers and my address book was lost in the move, so I am having real ...

If you live in eastern Volusia County, you may have recently received a phone book. For some of us, it may have been a pleasant (or unwanted) surprise and a nostalgic reminder of those pre-digital ...

Why aren’t there “phone books” (directories) for cell phone numbers? Finding your name and number in the phone book once meant that you had officially made it in the world. You see that in the film ...

Frontier Communications will be allowed to cease blanket distribution of the white pages in Connecticut, where the first-ever telephone directory was set on cardboard in the 19th century. Frontier is ...