It’s been over 130 years since the first telephone directory stressed the importance of serving the society at large with a centralized database. An American product with only one page and 50 subscribers, the incipient directory had a quick evolution. A simple search by telephone number, professional category, family name or city of the professionals [...]

A thorough telecommunications platform should ideally consist of all the numbers by which a service provider identifies a landline or a cell user. For that reason, all the telephone services’ consumers would be neatly listed in a database that successfully competes at its core with any census results in terms of figures. A mobile phone [...]