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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."

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  1. Re:Grandma's Future by thoughtspace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And Grandma will correctly reply:
    "Why do I have to wait 1 minute for this thing to start to get one phone number?"
    "Why are you still here hours later setting this up?"
    "WTF is all this other stuff"
    "How long do I have to wait for the internet thing to be connected to my house?"
    "Why couldn't you just solve the problem and look up the number in the first place?"
    "F%$k off Dick, I'll just call Aunt June to get the number."