The Alaska Power & Telephone directory will see its last printing this year. Starting in 2021, AP&T will cease printing phone books for its users, leaving some residents feeling disconnected.
“It’s been debated for many years,” customer operations representative based in Port Townsend, Washington, Mary Jo Quandt, said this week. “Phone books are no longer cost effective…We’re in the electronic age. People use their cellphones and the Internet.”
But in Haines, consistently the oldest community…
