Change Available Phone Books Home Care Path

Technology has started to change the value of a phone book directory. Telephone companies have reduced the frequency of new issue releases, and are moving away from mass printed residential phone listings. Fewer people are using the phone book directories.

More and more households have been using cell phones as the primary phone line. Typically cell phone numbers are not included in the phone book directory. Cell phones are now capable of storing frequently called numbers.

More households have a computer with online access. Families will go on line to find a phone number, rather than thumb through the printed phone listings in a book. Computer providers boast families can find a phone number quicker by searching an online data base, than working through the white pages of a phone book.

Phone companies have been highlighting the environmental savings (less paper use) to encourage the public to shift from printed phone book directories, to online data bases. Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com questions if the printed phone book directories will go like the pay phone booths that once adorned every street corner in America.