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Phone directories following booths - Albany Herald Posted: 20 Apr 2010 08:52 PM PDT Remember the old pay phone booths with their folding doors, the ones that finally gave way to partially covered pedestals? And the rotary dials that became push-button number pads? Regardless of whether the public telephone was in a booth or on a pedestal, they often shared a common feature — a missing phone book. People who used the books — about as often for looking up an address as for looking up a phone number — would tear out pages or many times just swipe the whole thing. Public pay phones have been out of vogue for quite a while now. We did a story a few years about their disappearance in Albany. The explosion of the cellular phone market did them in for the most part. Now, it appears that phone books — at least the White Pages with the residential phone numbers — are following suit in Albany and 17 of Georgia's biggest cities. On Tuesday, the Public Service Commission voted 4-1 to allow telephone companies operating in Georgia to stop having to provide annually residential telephone directories in the population areas they serve that have at least 50,000 people. Communities with fewer than 50,000 people will continue to automatically receive free phone books. The one caveat is that a customer in one of the 18 cities losing the free phone book service can request a free phone directory, though the PSC says that can be provided to them in paper or electronic form. The companies, however, don't have to promote that availability. They do have to notify affected customers before they cut off distribution of the directories. PSC officials say the new rule will go into effect 20 days after the commission submits it to the office of the secretary of state. While there was no immediate word on which, if any, cities would lose their White Pages directories, the likelihood is that they all will. For instance, AT&T, which serves in the Albany area, was a proponent of the rule change. A business rarely pushes for a regulatory change that it doesn't plan to take advantage of. The reason is simple. The directories have gotten more expensive to produce over the years. Many local phone service providers already have reduced the type size in an effort to save on the cost of paper. While Yellow Pages consist of paid advertising that benefits the phone companies, the White Pages are an expense that only benefit the phone customers. A phone book without its White Pages, after all, is much like a newspaper without any news. The change may be coming quicker than many urban residential customers are ready for it, but it's well on the way. If you have any doubt, you only need to look around for the nearest phone booth. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Free Cell Phone Number Reverse Lookup: Locate Phone ... - PRLog (free press release) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:05 AM PDT PR Log (Press Release) – Apr 22, 2010 – The fact of the matter is that due to The Wireless 411 Privacy Act of  09/ 2004 there is no free central directory of cell phone numbers in the USA, and therefore it's not possible to perform a free cell phone number reverse lookup with any degree of accuracy. This is possible with listed land line numbers (by using the Whitepages website) but not with cellular phone numbers. In order to do a professional reverse cell phone lookup, you will need to use a specialized reverse cellular phone directory site. To get immediately visit our recommended resource: http://www.look4records.com/reverse-cell-phone-directory Due to the popularity of the reverse search there are many different reverse cell phone directories to choose from, however there are also many scam sites offering 'free cell phone number reverse lookups'. Some sites require you to input your personal details in order for you to search their (usually limited) directory. They then resell your private info to telemarketers and/or spam you with ads themselves. Other sites advertise a free cell number reverse lookup, but are merely portals to paid sites. (They say the search is free but you have to pay for the final cell phone records.) Some good news is that there are some well regarded reverse cell number lookup services. They purchase data from large cellular phone networks and other private concerns. They then take the great expense and time of organizing the data into a reverse cell number directory and keeping it up to date. It's for this convenience that one must pay a small fee. We made plenty of mistakes searching the free cell phone number reverse lookup sites and even other paid reverse lookup directories but eventually settled with Reverse Phone Detective. http://www.look4records.com/reverse-cell-phone-directory They possess a large cell number and unlisted number directory and allow a free search to first see if they have any info for the number you wish to check (so you don't have waste money). Remember: Make certain the reverse cell number search service you choose has a membership option (generally for a year) that permits as many searches as you like. Some sites charge per search but I do not recommend this as the chances are very strong that you will require further searches in the future. There may be no way to perform a free cell phone number reverse lookup but at least with cell phone detective you are able to get reliable info with a few clicks and in the privacy of you own home. http://www.look4records.com/reverse-cell-phone-directory All the best with the searches! Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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