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From: dsac!dsachg1!dave@cis.ohio-state.edu (Dave Pridgen)
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Subject: Re: NYNEX Fast Track Digital Directory
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Date: 8 Feb 90 21:31:58 GMT
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 From article <3632@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 
(TELECOM Moderator):
 
> 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.
 
US West has had this service for almost a year now.  I used it at the
last company I worked for.  Their disk has over 12 million listings
from the fourteen Northwestern state that they cover.  The service is
quite nice offering amazingly fast lookup by city, state, name, phone
number, or street address.  

The program, which also only requires a CD-ROM drive and a IBM-PC has
many options including the ability to screen out listings by
residential or business (all the listings have a flag which tell
whether they are residential or business), various sorting options,
eg. name, city, zip, etc., and numerous print options allowing you to
print to a file or printer (giving you a lot of parameters you can
change).  

The service, called Locator Plus is available by monthly, quarterly,
half yearly or annual updates.  I believe the service runs from about
4000 to 14,000 dollars per year depending on how many updates you
contract for.


David Pridgen
Unify Corp
Site Consultant