[comp.dcom.telecom] Are Indiana White Pages Available on Electronic Media?

ghg@ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble) (10/18/90)

I have heard (in telecom) that NYNEX and some others are now offering
white pages on CDROM, tapes, etc, alone or with update services.
Anybody know about such a service/product existing for Indiana?

Thanks.

ghg

carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll) (10/30/90)

In article <13845@accuvax.nwu.edu> ghg@ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble)
writes:

>I have heard (in telecom) that NYNEX and some others are now offering
>white pages on CDROM, tapes, etc, alone or with update services.
>Anybody know about such a service/product existing for Indiana?

	Indiana Bell could offer such a service for the parts of the
state that they serve, but those would not include such places as Fort
Wayne (the second largest city in the state), Lafayette (where Mr.
Goble is), and much of the Upper Wabash and Tippecanoe valleys,
including the moderately large towns of Wabash and Logansport, all of
which are served by GTE.

	In addition, significant portions of Northern Indiana,
including much if not all of Koszciusko County (Warsaw and the heart
of the lake resort region) are served by United Telephone.

	There are also some independent telcos in small rural
communities across the northern part of the state, such as the
Reservoir Telephone Company which serves much of southern Huntington
County.

	If such a service were to be offered, it would probably be
offered by the people who put out the phone-book-on-microfiche
collection (University Microfilms of Ann Arbor?), not the telcos
themselves.

	Jeff Carroll
	carroll@atc.boeing.com


[Moderator's Note: And don't forget the northwest corner of Indiana,
which, although it has been Indiana Bell for a few years since it got
taken over from Illinois Bell is still part of the Chicago metro area
listings. Rarely do you see anything from there associated with the
'Indiana Bell' other areas of the state connect with. They seem to do
their own thing there, and identify with Illinois, and Illinois Bell's
directories, etc.  PAT]