Saturday, February 23, 2008

The LIST of FREE DA phone services as of today

As promised in my last post, here's my current list of free directory assistance (DA) phone services, as of this moment. They come and they go. If you have a couple of minutes to make some calls and answer these questions, I'd really love to know more about what you think. I set up a survey at the following location. If you'll take a few minutes to respond, I'll post results after responses slow down.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=t3mDG0OoDs22fJFG8hXXew_3d_3d

Here goes...I wouldn't be a bit surprised if I missed one or two.
  1. 1-800-YellowPages (800-935-5697) (I get to highlight this one, because it's my favorite, and I'm the writer. ;-) The rest are in alphabetical order.)
  2. 1-800-555-Tell (800-555-8355) (if you want listings, it plays an announcement directing you to 800-Call-411, but will still give you listings from this number, too)
  3. 1-800-Call-411 (800-225-5411)
  4. 1-800-Call-Dex (800-225-5339) (says it's a "beta" system, so calls may be recorded)
  5. 1-800-Free-411 (800-373-3411)
  6. 1-800-GOOG-411 (800-466-4411)
  7. 1-800-Info-Fast (800-463-6327)
  8. 1-800-San-Diego (800-726-3434) (had an announcement today of "technical difficulties" when I called today - asked me to call back later)
  9. 1-800-The-Info (800-843-4636)
  10. SayHello Service (904-358-3333) (I can't test it in my state. I know it started with Florida, so if you're located in Florida, you might be able to give it a try.)

I'm also aware of at least three free DA phone services that are no longer taking calls, including 2 that I tested as I was writing this post and one that went out of service over a year ago. :-(

2 comments:

Justian Travels said...

This is awesome info! Thanks Pinetrees!!!

owenandbenjamin said...

Good info. Thanks.

Interesting though. A blog dedicated to Free Directory Assistance. I would never have thought of that.