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Donnelley completed its acquisition of Dex Media, which had been spun off from Qwest in 2002-2003. Following the AT&T merger, the directories were known as 'AT&T Yellow Pages published by R.H. Donnelley gained a 50-year licensing agreement to use the SBC Yellow Pages name on all directories published for SBC Illinois customers.

Donnelley acquired the directory publishing business of SBC Communications in Illinois and northwest Indiana, along with the SBC interest in DonTech. Donnelley Publishing & Advertising, Inc., which published directories under the EMBARQ Yellow Pages name, was acquired from the Sprint Corporation. Donnelley acquired Sprint Directory Publishing, the publishing unit of Sprint Corp. On July 1, 1998, Dun & Bradstreet split into two companies, one assuming the Dun & Bradstreet name, while the other adopting the R.H. In 1990, DonTech was formed with Ameritech to publish telephone directories in Illinois and northwest Indiana. Venture One was formed with Southwestern Bell Corporation, which published directories in competition with Bell Atlantic in Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C. In 1988, it formed Cen-Don with Centel (now part of CenturyLink) to publish telephone directories in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia. Donnelley started publishing directories in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in competition with Bell Atlantic, although a lot of these areas were later sold off to Yellow Book. In 1986, it contracted with NYNEX to become its directory sales agent. Donnelley began a partnership with United Telephone ( Sprint), called Uni-Don, to publish telephone directories to customers in central Florida. Around this time, competition started with other phone companies to provide directories.ДЇrom 1980 to 1985, R.H.

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Donnelley became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet.ДЇollowing its merger with Dun & Bradstreet, the company began a series of partnerships with additional telephone companies to publish directories. In 1929, Reuben Donnelley died his company remained and continued to contract with the Bell System to publish telephone directories nationally. Donnelley Company was incorporated and moved to New York City, retaining some offices in Chicago. In 1906, the company began contracting with Bell System firms such as New York Telephone, Wisconsin Telephone, and Cincinnati Suburban Telephone Co. Donnelley primarily contracted with The Chicago Telephone Company to publish telephone directories for Chicago telephone customers. Donnelley, son of RR Donnelley founder Richard R. Dex One Corporation was originally established as the R.H.

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