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Canada's Largest Cities Seeing the End of the Phone Book

Posted by timothy on from the straight-to-the-pulping-machine dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "Telephone directories are available on the Internet, and many phones even store their own directories. There is less and less demand for a printed phone book, so residential phone books will no longer be printed and delivered in Canada's seven largest cities. Do we now expect everyone's grandma to look up phone numbers on the Internet? Of course, the Yellow Pages, where businesses pay for a listing, will still be delivered."

2 of 206 comments (clear)

  1. Re:About time! by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So join me the next time they deliver the yellow pages to "inform" YP advertisers - it's a waste, and the yellow pages reps lie (I've dealt with them).

  2. Re:Misleading summary. by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And a yellow psge listing is no guarantee of it being legit.

    Had anyone raised legitimacy as a selling point, you'd have a point.

    You did:

    from figuring out which of the 1x10^3 online versions are legit

    ... and it's not even Troll Tesday yet ...