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Sprint Tests Yellow Pages Web Site with Las Vegas Directory.

By John G. Edwards, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 4--Sprint Yellow Pages is breaking into the digital age with a sort of Yellow Web site.

R.H. Donnelley Corp., which published the country's first telephone directory in 1886, picked Las Vegas to test its new electronic Sprint Yellow Pages.

The company may introduce the Web site later at some of the other 260 communities where it distributes the directory of advertisers' telephone numbers.

The Purchase, N.Y., owner of Sprint Yellow Pages, chose La

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