While much of the content does overlaps with the infoUSA database, At Hand can deliver entries and phone numbers not available in the others. In several comparisons, it more closely matched the records in a printed directory than infoUSA hits. At Hand does have limitations. It is only a yellow pages database, although some of its component companies such as US West offer white page databases. Its searches are more limited than some of the others mentioned above.
Access is only by business name or category.
Only a single state at a time can be searched, and a city must be designated as well. For more advanced searching of the At Hand database, try the Web sites of their component Bell companies. For example, the US West service, known as US West Dex, also covers the entire country. As opposed to At Hand, it can search across a single state without specifying a city. In addition, it offers a reverse phone number lookup.