. 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quote showed prof's disdain for 'snail people' To the Editor: In an AP story Nov. 13 about the end of white pages telephone books, Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson quipped, "Anybody who ...

Frontier Communications is preparing for the distribution of its 2012 New Holland telephone directory. This year, the directory will change from previous editions as residential white pages listings ...

The famous telephone directory, which was acquired by Thryv Australia in 2021, has been a mainstay in households for generations. But the business has axed the option to search for all residential ...