cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) (12/19/89)
In article <2226@accuvax.nwu.edu>, nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com (David Lewis) writes: >Should you restrict the telcos from selling, >say, online white pages service? If you do, the service is never >going to be available -- no one else has the information to offer it. Not so! I am (when wearing my weekend-vacationer hat) a subscriber to Taconic Telephone, a small telco in Columbia County, NY. I receive from them the regular phone book. This contains full listings for TT subscribers, broken down by town, plus excerpts from the phonebooks of the other four telcos in Columbia County (Berkshire Tel, Germantown Tel, NY Tel). I also get, free of charge, another set of white pages from Trans Western Publishing. This contains the entire Columbia County phone list in a single alphabetical listing. (Both white pages have yellow pages bound at the back, and these yellow pages are obviously not quite the same.) Guess which set of white pages I use more often? In some places, there is a definite need for competing sets of white pages. Where does Trans Western get its white page info? It matches TT's exactly.
dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin) (12/20/89)
John Cowan asked in TELECOM Digest, Volume 9, Issue 582: | Where does Trans Western get its white page info? It matches | Taconic Telephone's exactly. The two local telcos here share white pages information with one another, and the independent books that proliferated here in late 1987 credit the telcos with the info. For example, Community Telephone Directories' 1987-88 book for the near northwestern suburbs of Chicago has these two paragraphs on page 2: :Listings for 296, 297 [rest of list elided], 825, and 827 prefixes :were transcribed by Community Telephone Directories, Inc. pursuant to :a license from Central Telephone Company of Illinois, from :compilations copyrighted by Central Telephone Company of Illinois and :may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent :of Central Telephone Company of Illinois. :Listings of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company contained within this :directory were transcribed by Community Telephone Directories, Inc. :pursuant to a license from Illinois Bell Telephone Company (from :compilations copyrighted 1987 by Illinois Bell Telephone Company) and :may not be reproduced in whole or in any part, or in any form :whatsoever, without :written consent of Illinois Bell Telephone :Company. National Suburban Directories' books have similar language. Fairly likely Trans Western has a similar arrangement with the telcos in Columbia County. The local book from Illinois Bell (the Chicago white pages) contains listings for Centel service within the city of Chicago, and the local Centel directory (Des Plaines/Park Ridge) includes listings for Illinois Bell service within the city of Des Plaines. However, neither telco's directory has a notice of license such as those above for use of the other telco's listing information. David Tamkin P.O Box 813 Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 | BIX: dattier dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (708) 518-6769 (312) 693-0591 | GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN Everyone on Chinet has his or her own opinion about this.| CIS: 73720,1570 [Moderator's Note: In addition, Centel publishes a directory for Chicago which is entitled 'Chicago-Newcastle', and the information therein is duplicated in Illinois Bell's Chicago White Pages. PT]