TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Phone Books Are Getting Thinner As Cellphones Take Over


Phone Books Are Getting Thinner As Cellphones Take Over


John Mayson (john@mayson.us)
Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:07:45 -0500

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/brave-new-world/phone-books-are-getting-thinner-as-cellphones-take-over-267233.php

"One upon a time if you knew someone's name, you could go to a thing
called a "phone book" and look up their phone number and where they
lived.

As cellphones becomes people's primary telephone, more and more
households are canceling their landlines and removing themselves
from the phone book."

John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA

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