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411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", although its official name is "directory assistance".
Yellow Pages Canada. Canada411. Website. corporate .yp .ca /en /. Yellow Pages Group ( YPG) ( Groupe Pages Jaunes ( GPJ) in French) is a Canadian telephone directory publisher and digital marketing firm founded in 1908 and headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) was a telephone service launched by Google in 2007, that provided a speech-recognition-based business directory search, and placed a call to the resulting number in the United States or Canada. The service was accessible a toll-free telephone number.
In the North American Numbering Plan (covering Canada, the United States, and parts of the Caribbean ), directory assistance may be contacted by dialing 4-1-1 (one of the N11 codes ). To get a listing in a remote or non-local area code, directory assistance is available at 1- area code -555-1212.
Canada. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the use of 211 throughout Canada on August 9, 2001. The first Canadian 211 service opened in Toronto on June 13, 2002. 211 services are free of charge and multilingual in Canada.
This service is available as an unlisted number, or an unpublished number. An unlisted number is excluded from public directories. An unpublished number is also excluded from directory assistance services, such as 411. Landline telephone companies often charge a monthly fee for this service.
411 may refer to: The year AD 411, the four hundred and eleventh year of the Gregorian calendar. 411 BC. 4-1-1, a telephone directory assistance number in the United States and Canada. By extension, a slang term for "information".
Callers then identify the city and state for the desired information, and can then search either by name or by business type. Free directory assistance is also available from an application for the iPhone and Android mobile phones, [2] and from their website.
Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on US residents. [3] Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard.
Canada. / 45.400°N 75.667°W / 45.400; -75.667. Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's second-largest country by total area, with the world's longest coastline.