Five years ago under operations of Verizon, the white page and yellow page phonebooks were separated. But within the week that is all going to change. When FairPoint took over they heard customer's requests to change it back to one book.

FairPoint proposed the idea to the Vermont Public Service Board and are happy to be changing it back. Sabina Haskell, a FairPoint Cooperative Communications said, "Having two directories and having them arrive three weeks before the next on is kinda inconvenient for people and they didn't like having two different directories to have to deal with and they wanted them one as one."

FairPoint has listened to customers concerns and got the directories back to one book and along with the combination of the directories FairPoint has now teamed up with Supermedia. Supermedia is a company that produces the books and is going to make the font bigger as well. Haskell also says, "People will get one directory there while pages and yellow pages will be in one book. It's better for the environment you don't have trucks delivering two different directories so you're not using the gas. You're running the presses once and it's a convenience factor for our customers. "

FairPoint has the new product and customers can expect them in the first week of May.  Some areas receive up to four to five different books. There are two companies that produce phonebooks for the area one is FairPoints supermedia and Phone Directories.