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Free white pages georgia9/12/2023 ![]() Verizon wanted to consolidate they're Directory operations and the location they chose wasn't here. That became Bell Atlantic and finally Verizon. Telephone division of AT&T which became NYNEX after the government broke up A T & T. My wife worked for the Yellow Pages starting right out of high school. Businesses used to foot the bill figuring they would make it up in foot traffic, so we were always paying for it indirectly. We can get lots more info than ever before but now we have to pay for what we use more directly. The internet just followed along you can find the basic information for free if you dig around but the pay-per-view sites are going to push their way to the front of the search engines.lot Now the books that are delivered to the home, around here at least, contains just the business and maybe government listings. Over the years, along with the Verizon Yellow Pages (which included white and blue pages and lots of local info), we started to get non-phone company phonebooks with white and yellow pages and lots of additional ads. ![]() The local phone company included it as part of a white pages/yellow pages format and sold lots of "ads" in those yellow pages. I tried a few names of folks I know, and got essentially same results.Īre all these folks unlisted, or is it not possible to simply get a free phone number anymore?ġ5 or so years ago, white page sites freely gave the information that was still being delivered in book form by your local phone company. There was a link to click to "get more numbers for Jane Doe" but they linked to paid sites. It reported an address, likely the correct one, but no phone number. It reported several folks with similar names, and I picked the likely candidate based on name, age, and city. Sheepishly I mentioned that they have the internet on computers now, maybe she could get the info there. In the last 10 years, this would be a very rare operation for me to do.Īnyway, my wife needed an address / phone number based on knowledge that "Jane Doe" lived in "Nearbytown Indiana" that would have been covered in any traditional white pages for our county. You know, the phone book where you could look up a name and get a phone number and maybe an address. In my area, they've stopped supplying us with printed White Pages. OK, that came out wrong, but you know what I mean. First, I'm very computer savvy, web savvy, and spend more time with a computer than I do with my wife.
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