Official Statement of PLDT Group on the turnover of old telephone books from junk shops

We at the PLDT group announced the turnover of old telephone books from display at the Directories Philippines Corporation Main Office and junk shops nationwide to a newly-built PLDT Library at the PLDT Ramon Cojuangco Building in Makati. It has been years to put a proposed library containing old telephone books by decade and year, from 1958 to the present. It is a dream for the telecommunications giant to have a proposed library soon.

The display of the old PLDT-DPC Metro Manila telephone directory in an Ikea bookcase, when the official flagship telephone directory was first published in 1958 (combined volume era) to the present (1977-1978 to 1983-1984, 1995-1996 and 2014-2015 to present triple-volume era, 1984-1985 to 1994-1995 double-volume era and 1996-1997 to 2013-2014 four-volume era), it arranged by decade and year. From 1995-1996 to 2013-2014, the yellow pages were separated into two books known as "Household & Business" and "Commercial & Industrial", and since 1996, the white pages have been separated into two books known as "Government & Business Listings" and "Residential Listings". It will preserve the cover and pages of their telephone books and cannot be burned.