The next Verizon phone book you receive will contain no residential listings, a change that will reduce the directory’s bulk by about 25 percent and should save 5,000 tons of paper a year in New ...

Because the Erie County edition of the phone book comes out in December -- before the change takes effect -- the upcoming directory will include residential listings for one last time, said Andrew ...

The residential listings are a separate book now. Customers also may call (800) 888-8448 to get a book with a residential listing or to opt out of the phone-book delivery.

Fun fact: The first phone book wasn’t a book but just a single sheet of paper. Published in 1878, it listed the numbers of about four dozen customers living in New Haven, Conn.

Posted: Feb 25, 2024 / 08:00 AM CST Updated: Feb 20, 2024 / 12:55 PM CST Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo.

The first telephone directory was issued in February 1878 <0x2014> a single page that covered 50 customers in New Haven, Conn. That sheet grew into a book that became virtually a household ...

Phone companies note that eliminating residential white pages would reduce environmental impact by using less paper and ink. It also can't hurt their bottom lines to cut out the cost of a service ...

Discover the history and evolution of the iconic Yellow Pages directory, bridging the gap between businesses and consumers ...

1878: First phone directory printed in Connecticut Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, developed an exchange—the system that allows people to call each other—within a year ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2006-- The User-Friendly Phone Book (UFPB), a leading independent yellow page directory publisher, is distributing its first Akron-Medina, Ohio ...

Back when the mountains were taller because there hadn’t been as much erosion, I learned the lore of the “upside-down” phone book as a young police reporter on the Chicago Tribune’s city ...

Local phone book complete A new locally produced consumer telephone book is now on the streets of metropolitan Fargo-Moorhead. SmartSearch, the brainchild of Fargoan Dan Bryant, is being ...