How many people call 411 daily in the US.. and similar services around the world?

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 14 Apr 2004 00:28 PDT

I've located some good annual figures for the U.S. (it'd be possible
to figure a daily rate by dividing).

Statistics for the "around the world" are somewhat harder to come by. 
Would you settle for the U.S. figure?

Hello.

According to a projection on the web site of the U.S. Department of
Transportation, a total of approximately 9.3 billion directory
assistance (411) calls will be made this year in the U.S.
See:
Table 2 - U.S. Directory Assistance Call Volumes 2000 - 2005,
http://www.its.dot.gov/511/511_Costs.htm#Table2

That figure implies a daily 411 call rate of about 25.5 million in the U.S.

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I actually was able to locate a worldwide figure.

According to a Zelos Group report, the worldwide directory assistance
total in 2003 was 48 billion calls.  This year would likely be higher
as Zelos predicts an 11.8% compound annual growth rate.

Source:
Zelos Group: Global Directory Assistance/Enquiry: Overview and
Forecast, July 2003, cached by Google:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:qjmfX1AlP4UJ:www.zelosgroup.com/sr/RDA0003080102Y-1.asp+%22directory+assistance%22+worldwide+%22billion+calls&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Here's an active link courtesy of snipurl.com:
http://snipurl.com/5p6p

Thus, if you suppose a 2004 annual rate of 53 billion, that would
imply a  worldwide directory assistance call rate of about 145 million
calls per day.

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search strategy:
"u.s." "directory assistance" "billion calls"
"directory assistance" worldwide "billion calls" 

I hope this helps.

This is what I was looking for. Thanks for getting this information.