Companies yank cord on residential phone books

[Rekrul]

It's about time. I'm tired of picking them up off the porch, and throwing them into my recycle bin.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - 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 musty fixture of Americans' kitchen counters, refrigerator tops and junk drawers.

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 provide comments on a similar request pending with state regulators.

Telephone companies argue that most consumers now check the Internet rather than flip through pages when they want to reach out and touch someone.

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[bustybbwlover]

hopefully this isn't the first step toward a cell phone directory

 

[ICanHasLogin]

What will I use to even the table legs?

 

[Kingfisher]

What will I shoot at now? They make great backstops in the garage.

 

[tartanterrier]

The sooner they do that in the UK the better

 

[D-rock]

I still have a need for a phone book, but they give out way too many of them now. It would be better if they gave people a good phonebook once every four or five years instead of ending up with three a year where most of them have to be thrown away and not much changes from year to year.

 

[pete rose]

Now how am I going to beat people without bruising them?

 

[LukeEl]

Now how am I going to beat people without bruising them?

Use hurtful words they bruise alot more.

 

[FuiFui]

Junk Mail next, plz!

 

[tiger1977]

I guess I'm going to have to learn how to start a bonfire from actual wood now. Bummer.

 

[pete rose]

Use hurtful words they bruise alot more.

I don't get nearly the same satisfaction.

 

[meesterperfect]

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more of yours, less of theirs.