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Australia

Australia's business directory was first published in its own volume in 1973 as the Yellow Pages. The directory was originally produced by the Postmaster General, and continued to be produced by the government, as the telephone system transferred to Telecom Australia and now Telstra. Today, the Yellow Pages is produced by Sensis, a wholly-owned advertising subsidiary of Telstra.

The Yellow Pages have for many years produced some of Australia's most popular television commercials, often highlighting the perils of not placing an advertisement in the directory on time. The most famous of these immortalised the phrase 'Not happy, Jan!' in the Australian vernacular.

In specific localised areas of the Australian Capital Territory, it has been known to be used as toilet paper when there is none left in the house.

France

In France Yellow Pages are referred to as Pages Jaunes. They are distributed free by Pagesjaunes.fr, a company affiliated with France TГ©lГ©com. pagesjaunes.com, the .com version of Pages Jaunes, was the issue of a major court case at WIPO; the original registrant, an individual from Los Angeles, won against France TГ©lГ©com.

This court decision defended by the Parisian Lawyer, Andre Bertrand, was path-setting for the whole European Yellow Pages industry, as it decided that the phrase "Yellow Pages" cannot be considered the property of a single company. Previously, many former state monopoly telecom companies outside the US had tried to ban competition by claiming the term "yellow pages", or the translation of "yellow pages" into the vernacular, as their exclusive trademark.

Vivendi Universal moved to enter the French Yellow Pages market in 2001 with scoot.fr, but the attempt was a killed by a reorganisation of the struggling company. Since the liberalization of .fr domains in May 2004, the domain yellowpages.fr has been registered by Phonebook of the World.com. Another French editor of Yellow Pages is Bottin. More competition is expected in November 2005 from the libralisation of "12", the former unique "4-1-1" number of Renseignements Telephoniques, french for Directory Inquiry.

Other countries

In Belgium the equivalent directory is titled Gouden Gids (Dutch) or Pages d'Or (French), and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber.

In Czech Republic the equivalent directory is titled ZlatГ© StrГЎnky and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber.

In Denmark the equivalent directory is titled De Gule Sider is distributed free to each subscriber, by TDC Forlag.

In Finland the directory is called Keltaiset sivut.

In Germany a directory titled Die Gelben Seiten is distributed free to each subscriber, by the Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile

In Indonesia, the telecommunication company TELKOM with PT. Infomedia Nusantara (one of its subsidiaries), regularly publishes phone books. The phone book consisted of white pages and yellow pages. The phone book is updated regularly (typically every six months or a year) and is published in various editions (depending where the book is published).

In Netherlands the equivalent directory is titled Gouden Gids; within the district concerned it is distributed free to each telephone subscriber.

In Spain it's called PГЎginas Amarillas, distributed by TelefГіnica Publicidad e InformaciГіn, S.A

In Sweden it's called Gula sidorna, distributed by Eniro AB.

In Switzerland the company Swisscom Directories AG produces and distributes directories in several forms including internet-based yellow pages in four languages, including English. The company Swissguide AG provides additional business information on all Swiss companies.

In Canada the company Yellow Pages Group owns the trademarks Yellow Pages and Pages Jaunes. It produces and distributes directories in both English and French. Yellow Pages Group is the market leader in print and online commercial directories and one of the largest media companies in Canada, producing the official directories of Bell Canada, Telus and Aliant. Other ILECs such as MTS and SaskTel publish their own directories and use the Yellow Pages name under licence. Competitive local directories often include commercial directories on yellow paper, but cannot use the Yellow Pages brand.

In China, the modern yellow pages industry was started in the late 1990’s with the formation of two international joint ventures between US yellow pages publishers and China’s telecom operators, namely: a joint venture started in Shenzhen between RHDonnelley and China Unicom (later including Hong Kong’s PCCW and InfoSpace); and a joint venture between China Telecom Shanghai and what later came to be known as the yellow pages operations of Verizon Communications Corp.(NYSE:VZ).

Later, another mainly state-owned telecom operator, China Netcom began to produce, either directly or on a sub-contracted basis, yellow pages in selected cities around the country. By early 2005, there were a number of independent local and international yellow pages operators in numerous cities including Yilong Huangbaoshu, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province with operations in Hangzhou and Ningbo.

In Colombia, the standard yellow and White Pages are published and distributed every year free of charge by Publicar, a Colombian subsidiary company of Carvajal, which also publishes and distributes yellow and white pages in other Latin American countries.

See also

• Yellowikis - an on-line wiki based business directory
• Wikicompany - an on-line wiki based business directory
• Local Search - Wikipedia article in part about search engines' version of online yellow pages
• White pages - Wikipedia article about White Pages

External links

National pages

• Nigerian Yellow Pages
• Indian Yellow Pages
• Yellow Pages Algeria (FR)
• Yellow Pages Australia
• Yellow Pages Belgium
• Yellow Pages Cambodia
• Yellow Pages Canada
• Yellow Pages Cyprus
• Yellow Pages Czech Republic
• Yellow Pages of Denmark by TDC
• Yellow Pages Finland
• Yellow Pages France by France Telecom
• Yellow Pages France
• Yellow Pages Germany
• Yellow Pages Ghana
• Yellow Pages Indonesia
• Yellow Pages Netherlands
• Yellow Pages Nigeria by Xybertek
• Yellow Pages of Norway by Findexa
• Yellow Pages of Norway by Nettkatalogen
• Yellow Pages Poland
• Yellow Pages of United States USA Yellow Pages
• Yellow Pages of Sweden by Eniro
• Yellow Pages of Sweden by Hitta
• Yellow Pages Switzerland
• Yellow Pages UK
• Yellow Pages USA by SBC
• Yellow Pages USA by Verizon
• Yellow Pages USA by Yellowpages.com
• Yellow Pages USA
• Yellow Pages USA by 411.Info
• Yellow Pages Colombia (Other Latin American yellow pages are also available on this site)

Other

• Yellow Pages Industry Association - Print, Internet, Wireless
• Very old yellow page (Historical directory)
• Swissguide Yellow Pages with additional company information (German, French, Italian, English)
• Yellowpages of the World
• Yellowikis open business directory powered by Mediawiki
• Yellow Pages Hong Kong by PCCW
• Yellow Page Design Tips
• Irano-German business directory yellow pages
• European business directory yellow pages
• How can poor advertising in yellow pages be improvedde:Gelbe Seiten