Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: White Pages (was: Information Services) Message-ID: <2300@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 18 Dec 89 16:22:36 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Cowan Organization: ESCC, New York City Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 582, message 9 of 10 In article <2226@accuvax.nwu.edu>, nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com (David Lewis) writes: >Should you restrict the telcos from selling, >say, online white pages service? If you do, the service is never >going to be available -- no one else has the information to offer it. Not so! I am (when wearing my weekend-vacationer hat) a subscriber to Taconic Telephone, a small telco in Columbia County, NY. I receive from them the regular phone book. This contains full listings for TT subscribers, broken down by town, plus excerpts from the phonebooks of the other four telcos in Columbia County (Berkshire Tel, Germantown Tel, NY Tel). I also get, free of charge, another set of white pages from Trans Western Publishing. This contains the entire Columbia County phone list in a single alphabetical listing. (Both white pages have yellow pages bound at the back, and these yellow pages are obviously not quite the same.) Guess which set of white pages I use more often? In some places, there is a definite need for competing sets of white pages. Where does Trans Western get its white page info? It matches TT's exactly.