Syracuse, NY -- Mark another milestone in the digital era. The next Verizon phone book you receive will contain no residential listings, a change that will reduce the directory’s bulk by about ...

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 ...

AT&T land line phone customers in the “greater Los Angeles” area received copies of the company’s phone book recently. And if they looked closely, they probably noticed something different ...

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.

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 ...

Three weeks later, Coy published a list of New Haven’s 50 phone subscribers (names of people and businesses only, as phone numbers didn’t yet exist): the first-ever phone directory.

The residential phone book "no longer provides the same utility it once did," AT&T told Missouri regulators, who approved the company's petition for the state's larger metropolitan areas.

The white pages of the phone book are the residential listings. People who have opted to be listed in the phone book are included in the white pages in alphabetical order.

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 ...

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 desk.

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 ...