White Pages will no longer be delivered automatically - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The PSC’s decision is a compromise to AT&T’as request that it no longer deliver the phone booksto AT&T Florida told the PSC that eliminating the automati c distribution of the residential white pages is “an environmentally green endeavor and a cost saving measure” and that providinfg a paper copy of the directory is “an inefficient use of resourcews in these touch economic But commissioners also were worried about how it might impact customers’ ability to accesds information, said PSC Spokeswoman Kirsten Instead of doing away with the rule commissioners agreed to give it a trial run, durint which time it will gather customer feedback.
“Today’s decisionb allows the PSC to assess the practicality of discontinuintg printed residentialdirectory delivery, while continuing to provide directorie s to customers who want a copy,” PSC Chairmah Matthew M. Carter II said in a news release. As part of the AT&T must put a toll-free number on the cover of the Yelloww Pages that directs people to call if they want aWhitr Pages. The directory will still be provided for free to thoswe whorequest it. AT&T Floridaz would not disclose just how much money the waivetrwill save, citing according to its requesyt to the PSC.
AT&T Florida already has beguh a program to provide its Yellow Pages and residential listingson CD-ROj in certain areas of Florida.