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2. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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   Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...

3. Whitepages (company) - Wikipedia

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   Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on residents of the United States. [3] Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard.

4. PLDT - Wikipedia

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   PLDT was established on November 28, 1928, by a Philippine Government act. Philippine legislature and approved by then governor-general Henry L. Stimson by means of a merger of four telephone companies under operation of the American telephone company GTE. [6] Known as Act 3436, the bill granted PLDT a 50-year charter and the right to establish ...

5. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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   1883: The Yellow Pages are invented. The business listings directory got its iconic look by accident in 1883 when a Cheyenne, Wyoming, printer ran out of white paper and made do with yellow paper ...

6. White pages (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   The white pages is a listing of telephone subscribers in a telephone directory. White pages may also refer to: White Pages (UDDI), a protocol used to discover Web Services. Whitepages (company), a provider of contact information for people and businesses, mainly in Canada and the US. whitepages.com.au, an online searchable Sensis directory of ...

7. Yellow pages - Wikipedia

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   The yellow pages are telephone directories of businesses, organized by category rather than alphabetically by business name, in which advertising is sold. The directories were originally printed on yellow paper, as opposed to white pages for non-commercial listings. The traditional term "yellow pages" is now also applied to online directories ...