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Subject: NYNEX Fast Track Digital Directory
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Date: 8 Feb 90 05:43:49 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 85, message 6 of 6


NYNEX is now offering their published telephone listings on compact
disk.  They say their compact disk will provide nearly instant access
to the ten million published listings from virtually every white pages
directory in the six-state region covered by NYNEX: Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and part of
Connecticut.

All you need, they say in their ads, is a Fast Track disc and
software, an IBM or IBM-compatible PC and a CD-ROM reader.

NYNEX updates the Fast Track CD monthly. If you subscribe to this
service, each month you will receive a completely new disk with
approximatly 600,000 changes from the prior issue. Obviously, using
Fast Track instead of conventional Directory Assistance you get the
listings you want in a fraction of the time you would spend doing a
manual lookup or to make a Directory Assistance call. The information
I got from NYNEX -- no prices quoted in the introductory mailing --
does not specify at what point the *cost* per lookup becomes less than
the cost of a call to DA.

The material from NYNEX also discusses the use of a LAN package so
that an entire network of PC's can share the Fast Track database.

They are directing their marketing efforts for this new product toward
credit processing centers, collection agencies, and government
agencies, but invite any business person who makes heavy use of DA in
the NYNEX region to investigate the product.

You can receive a free Fast Track demo diskette by calling 1-800-338-0646.  
I suggest you may wish to have them send it to your company, by name,
at your business address. I doubt they are interested in individuals
who are curiosity-seekers.


Patrick Townson