Alastair Crawford

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Career

Crawford founded i-CD Publishing (UK) Ltd in 1997, which published the UK-info Disk range.[1] He was the first person to publish the electoral roll on CD ROM, which led to a legal dispute with Royal Mail, settled in 2004.[2] The case was mentioned in the book Silent State, by Heather Brooke.[3]

Crawford was also the first to publish a UK directory enquiry site 192.com and the first to challenge BT's monopoly of directory enquiries.[4]

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