The phone book
The telephone book is Germany's oldest telephone and address directory , which has around 100 million private and commercial contacts. The editors are 38 regional publishers and Deutsche Tele Medien GmbH .
history
In 1881 Germany's first official telephone book appeared in Berlin under the name “Directory of those involved in the telephone system”. The number of registered owners of a telephone connection is still very manageable. In the course of advancing technical development and the growing interest of the population in telephony, the number of registered subscribers rose rapidly, as did the spread of the directory medium.
In 1981 the official telephone book was privatized. From then on, the publishers organized in the Association of German Information and Directory Media (VDAV) and Deutsche Postreklame, founded in 1946, published regional editions of the telephone directory under the title “Telephone Book” . After the reunification of Germany, the German Postreklame was 1990, a 100 percent subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom in 1994 and was in De funnel Te lekom Media GmbH ( DeTeMedien renamed). In 1999 DeTeMedien and the telephone book publishers founded Das Telefonbuch-Servicegesellschaft mbH as a joint venture. Your task is the coordinated further development of the products as well as the control of the common appearance of the brand "Das Telefonbuch".
In November 2015, Deutsche Telekom announced that it would sell its subsidiary DeTeMedien and sell the telephone directory to regional publishers by 2017 at the latest. Since the sale of DeTeMedien to a consortium of medium-sized publishers on June 14, 2017, the company has been called Deutsche Tele Medien GmbH .
Products
The phone book contains around 100 million private and commercial contact details and is available in printed form, on the Internet and for use on mobile devices. In addition to names, addresses and telephone numbers, it also provides further information such as opening times, product / service offers or internet addresses for commercial entries. The print version of Das Telefonbuch has over 150 regionally different editions and a print run of around 28 million copies. The directory is also available as voice information and DVD-ROM .
An online version of Das Telefonbuch has also existed since 1997 . In addition to address and contact research, the internet service offers numerous additional functions, such as city maps, an overview of the most important emergency numbers and current pharmacy emergency services, or the reverse search (see also reverse search ). Through a cooperation with the evaluation portal golocal.de, evaluations of local businesses can also be carried out directly in Das Telefonbuch .
Moreover, it is the phone book with an optimized website for mobile devices such as cell phones and smart phones available and is also called free since 2009 app available. Today this is available for all common mobile devices ( iPhone / iPad , Android phones and Windows Phone 8 ). The direct search buttons on the start page of the app show important addresses in the area with just one click: For example, the button “Petrol price search” shows petrol stations with the currently cheapest petrol prices nearby. Das Telefonbuch has been offering the MeinTelefonbuch service since 2010 . This means that every owner of a telephone connection can independently set, manage or release their personal data, which can then be viewed by everyone.
The special directory “TB Guide” for the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich has been published since 2014 as a print edition and on the Internet as a “guide to every situation in life, with quality journalism, tips, thousands of addresses”. The joint editors and publishers of the directory are Deutsche Tele Medien GmbH and TVG Verlag.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Telekom separates from the phone book , sueddeutsche.de, message from November 3, 2015
- ↑ http://www.dastelefonbuch.de/Impressum.html
- ^ The telephone book from 1881 . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ The phone book in the 1980s . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ The phone book in the 1990s . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Events 2017 at geschaeftsbericht.telekom.com
- ^ Digital directories and services . TVG-Verlag website. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Online service from Das Telefonbuch . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ Mobile products from Das Telefonbuch . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ The phone book in the 2010s: My phone book . Retrieved July 29, 2014.
- ↑ TB GUIDE - test the local guide! Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
- ^ TVG Verlag: TB GUIDE . Retrieved July 29, 2015.
