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No, you could not "opt out" of being listed in the phone book. You could pay to be removed. Furthermore, usefulness does not equal consent.
by jfrunyon 5y ago
No, you could not "opt out" of being listed in the phone book. You could pay to be removed. Furthermore, usefulness does not equal consent.
- mPReDiToR 5y agoIn England at least you could opt out for free on landlines in the 90s. When mobile phones started up (back in the ten digit days) you could call a cellular provider and query a number if you had a name. The STD (yes, yes, laugh at the STI joke) prefix used to signal the network the user was on so you could ask Orange for "John Smith" if the number started 0973. This was also free to opt out of.