Telephone Directory

A telephone directory or directory is traditionally a book with a collection of telephone numbers listed by name and hometown. Since this information can also be accessed via the Internet is the use of the paper version declined.

In 1881 was published the first directory in the Netherlands. [1] In most cases, there is also added information about the address and the profession orBUSINESS of your desired. Sometimes there is also information on his / her mobile - and fax numbers andEMAIL ADDRESSES. ==[Netherlands edit] == In the Netherlands, there is The Telephone & Gold Guide, in 45 sections, so far guide areas is published by The Telephone BV,BY TRADE DTG. The local guide will be deliveredFOR FREE. You may specify not to like him or despite neesticker still wanting.

European Directories, the company behind The Telephone, took over in 2008 rival Yellow Pages (Truvo Netherlands) about. Since May 2009, the merged guidebook.

The Telephone BV was created in the spring of 2003 through the sale of Telemedia of KPN.

For some years the telephone was compressed in extensive regions share. Before that time there was a whole series of books, in whole alphabet, which you could see in every post office and who had large offices held. Regular subscribers only had the part of the region where they lived. The series was itself alphabet: the series began in Aadorp (O) and ended at Zijtaart (NB). This was in 1984 to the editor of the Noord-Hollands Dagblad the occasion to publish a series of articles on the towns, villages and hamlets that are "on the back of the PhoneBOOK" were mentioned. They then went to Aadorp example, and made an impression with some pictures. ==Belgium [edit]== Telephone directories in Belgium available since 1884. Later they were issued by the Director of Telegraphs and Telephones (RTT) and Belgacom. In 1968 acquired ITT Promedia the concession for the issue of the telephone directory. Their Yellow Pages published in 1969, first in Antwerp and Liege. A year later, this cycle around and received every telephone subscriber Yellow Pages and White Pages.

A conflict between Belgacom and Promedia, known as the Belgian telephone war resulted in subscribers between 1995 and 1998 received four directories: a gold and a white guide Belgacom and a gold and white pages of ITT. After solving this conflict was Promedia, since 2007 Truvo,CONTINUE with the publication and distribution of both guides.