SPRINGFIELD – From now on, fingers looking for home phone numbers are going to do their walking on a computer keyboard. Verizon is no longer including residential white-pages listings with most phone ...

RICHMOND, Va. - 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 ...

Syracuse, NY -- Mark another milestone in the digital era. The next Verizon phone book you receive will contain no residential listings, a change that will reduce the directory’s bulk by about 25 ...

“Even though Spokane is a larger market, it kind of acts rural.” -John Gregory, vice president of directories, Dex Media When CenturyLink’s official phone book arrived on the doorsteps of Spokane ...

For some people, the phone books that automatically show up on the doorstep or in the mailbox are relics of the past. With the prevalence of smartphones and the Internet, using the white pages to look ...

Before the Internet, if a person needed to obtain a phone number or address for a person or business, he grabbed the phone book and searched for the information. Back then, "Googling" consisted of ...

Just weeks after San Francisco passed a law stopping the automatic delivery of telephone books, California regulators approved Verizon's request to end deliveries of printed white pages statewide. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Dark days are ahead for the white pages. Regulators in many states are giving phone companies permission to stop printing residential listings since fewer people are using them.