France Télécom said it was in talks to sell its 54percentt stake in the yellow pages service PagesJaunes to the New York investment fund Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Company for $4.18 billion.
Banyan Systems bnyn rose sharply after CBS cbs announced plans to invest a 35% stake in online yellow pages service Switchboard.com, a Banyan subsidiary.
Listings will be augmented by additional company information supplied by infoUSA.com, a major business database, and distributed on GTEs SuperPages.com, a leading web-based yellow pages service and on the search site LookSmart.
Truecaller, the Sweden-based creater of a crowdsourced phone directory app and online white pages service, has opened its API to a select group of "handpicked" developers.
Leah Culver of Pownce came up with a white pages service that uses SMS text messages to look up phone numbers.
Iridium is a narrow-band service primarily intended for voice and paging services.
Three providers of interactive paging services can be found at www.wyndtell.com, www.reachnet.com and www.bellsouthips.com.
Competition in other sectors is stronger: there are some 30 licences for paging services and five for digital cellular telephones.
Because of the excess demand for cellular phones, paging services have become popular, and there are several in the country.
