telephone company

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New York City’s telephone company in 1886 published the first Yellow Pages directory of business phone numbers—creating a nearly friction-free way for merchants and customers to find one another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Cybersecurity experts have warned that breaches that involve a telephone company, like the AT&T case, leave customers vulnerable to having their phone numbers stolen, or “simjacked.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

Now aged 40 and a telephone company employee, Klaoudatou is earning the same money - 850 euros a month - she did as a 20- year-old supermarket worker in 2004.

From Reuters • May 15, 2023

When he was laid off from now-defunct telephone company Pacific Bell in 1995, he told reporters it was because of budget constraints.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2023

Inquiry of the telephone company revealed that a “Mrs. Small” had called and requested that the service for that number be disconnected, “for vacation.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey