I live in the North East where Verizon used to own the landlines, however, after selling them to FairPoint, we no longer received phone books except for 1 that is privately published and is hit-or-miss with phone numbers. FairPoint does not issue phone books, and I have looked all over Google for websites that might be affiliated with a telecommunications carrier, and there just doesn't seem to be any. Every single one wants to charge you for the phone number. We all learned to go to the phone book to look up a number instead of calling 411, and then the phone companies started charging 50 cents every time someone called Information for a phone number. It just doesn't seem quite fair that the phone companies have left many of us out to dry by not providing FREE phone numbers on the Internet. After all, their expensive to publish phone books are no charge. Up until recently I could get phone numbers on the internet, however, it seems they've all gone over to charging for phone number look-up now. Thank you all for your input.
