{"id":2334,"date":"2012-09-27T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/white-pages-no-longer-to-be-distributed\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:42:02","slug":"white-pages-no-longer-to-be-distributed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/white-pages-no-longer-to-be-distributed\/","title":{"rendered":"White pages no longer to be distributed in Laval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n    By Robert Frank<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    The venerable white pages residential<br \/>\ntelephone directory will no longer be distributed to homes in Laval. The annual<br \/>\ncompilation of household phone numbers<br \/>\nand addresses has fallen victim an unstoppable trend toward Internet searches for<br \/>\nresidential listings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaval residents who still want one can&nbsp;easily obtain a copy by visiting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/delivery.ypg.com\/\">delivery.ypg.com<\/a> or calling 1-800-268-<br \/>\n5637,\u201d said Andr\u00e9 Leblanc, communication director for <i>Le Groupe Pages Jaunes.<\/i><br \/>\nThe firm used to be owned by Bell, but has<br \/>\nbeen an independent, publicly traded company since the telecoms giant spun it off in<br \/>\n2006.<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n    <br \/>\n\u201cObviously the internet has changed the<br \/>\nway that people look for local information,\u201d he remarked.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n    \u201cA lot of it has to do with broadband<br \/>\ninternet penetration,\u201d Leblanc explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYellowpages.ca plus, our mobile [phone]<br \/>\napplication, has been downloaded 4.5 million times. It\u2019s constantly ranked as one of<br \/>\nthe most popular productivity applications<br \/>\nin Canada. We\u2019re quite proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that \u201cThe only thing that we<br \/>\nwill be removing [from the print version of<br \/>\nthe directory] is the residential numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leblanc said that the alphabetical listing&nbsp;of local companies, which hitherto<br \/>\nappeared in the white pages, will now be<br \/>\nadded to the yellow pages. He added that<br \/>\nthe print edition of the business directory<br \/>\nremains extremely popular with<br \/>\nCanadians.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n    <br \/>\n\u201cOn a monthly basis 41 per cent of<br \/>\nCanadians do a search of the book,\u201d he<br \/>\nnoted, \u201cand 89 per cent of Canadians keep<br \/>\nthe yellow pages in their homes. 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The annual compilation of household phone numbers and addresses has fallen victim an unstoppable trend toward Internet searches for residential listings. \u201cLaval residents who still want one can&nbsp;easily obtain a copy by visiting delivery.ypg.com or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White pages no longer to be distributed in Laval - Newscoverage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/white-pages-no-longer-to-be-distributed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White pages no longer to be distributed in Laval - Newscoverage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com The venerable white pages residential telephone directory will no longer be distributed to homes in Laval. 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