Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: esegue!johnl@uunet.uu.net (John Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phonebook Distribution Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 22:16:43 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 338, message 7 of 7 I have phone service at home in Cambridge MA (Nynex) and at my beach house near Atlantic City NJ (Bell Atlantic.) In both places, the local companies send any in-state phone books just for the asking. In MA you can ask for a full state set which is about four feet thick. For the Boston area there are six separate phone books for my local calling area, the central white pages, three separate suburban white pages, the regular yellow pages, and the business yellow pages. There is also a useless digest-sized "community" phone book consisting of white pages listings for Cambridge and Somerville and a set of yellow pages; it is just an attempt to make businesses buy ads in yet another volume of yellow pages. In Cambridge, phone book distribution has become terrible in recent years. I don't think that I've gotten any phone books delivered to my door since divestiture. I happen to live across the street from some Harvard dormitories where they dump pallets phone books in the lobby, so I can pick up most of what I need there but I always end up having to call and ask for the rest. In NJ, they deliver the local Ocean County book reliably, but I have to call and ask for the Atlantic County book even though about 1/3 of my local calling area is in Atlantic County. Regards, John Levine, johnl@ima.isc.com or uunet!lotus!esegue!johnl