SPRINGFIELD – From now on, fingers looking for home phone numbers are going to do their walking on a computer keyboard. Verizon is no longer including residential white-pages listings with most phone ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Dark days are ahead for the white pages. Regulators in many states are giving phone companies permission to stop printing residential listings since fewer people are using them.

“Even though Spokane is a larger market, it kind of acts rural.” -John Gregory, vice president of directories, Dex Media When CenturyLink’s official phone book arrived on the doorsteps of Spokane ...

For some people, the phone books that automatically show up on the doorstep or in the mailbox are relics of the past. With the prevalence of smartphones and the Internet, using the white pages to look ...

. 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 ...

websites that provide searchable databases of individual email addresses and other "people-finding" tools. They typically include residential telephone numbers and street addresses. However, unlike ...

Starting next year, Lancaster County residents will have only one way to get a complete Verizon phone book. Ask for it. Verizon has gotten state approval to stop its automatic delivery of full phone ...

WHITE Pages predicts its old telephone directory books will still be around for at least a decade and says its new online search platform ensures it will not follow Kodak’s demise. White Pages ...

In a move which will make it easier to find who you’re looking for, the Auckland White pages book has been split into two separate books - one for business listings and the other for residential ...

What's black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books, a ...

For some people, the phone books that automatically show up on the doorstep or in the mailbox are relics of the past. With the prevalence of smartphones and the Internet, using the white pages to look ...

In the past month alone, New York, Florida and Pennsylvania approved Verizon Communications Inc.'s request to quit distributing residential white pages. Residents in Virginia have until Nov. 19 to ...