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Operator assistance refers to service provided by a telephone operator to the calling party of a telephone call.This can include telephone calls made from pay phones, calls placed station-to-station, person-to-person, or collect, third-number calls, calls billed to credit cards, and certain international calls which cannot be dialed directly.
Companies requested to have their toll-free number listed, and paid the providers each time their phone number was released to a toll-free directory-assistance caller. In 1999, AT&T applied for permission to discontinue this service, [ 2 ] but it remained active until the summer of 2020.
411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [ 1 ] although its official name is "directory assistance".
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0 — operator assistance; 00 — long-distance operator assistance (formerly 2-1-1) 011 — access code for international direct dialing all destinations outside the NANP; 01 — international access code using operator assistance for all destinations outside the NANP
Following the successful launch of 1-800-COLLECT, AT&T responded with a competing 1-800 phone number providing discounted collect calling, 1-800-OPERATOR. However, a significant portion of calls intended for 1-800-OPERATOR misspelled "Operator" as "Operater". [ 4 ]