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Automatic message accounting (AMA) provides detailed accounting for telephone calls. When direct distance dialing (DDD) was introduced in the US, message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. The need to record the time and phone number of each long-distance call was met by electromechanical data processing equipment.
A $10 calling card is charged at $1.05 per minute. After $9.45 is used, the remaining $.55 is not sufficient to make any call. Abandoned Accounts: Accounts or calling cards which are lost or abandoned while still retaining significant credit. This is the equivalent of the meaning of the term "Breakage" in the gift card context.
For example, on one network the 2019 cost of calling from the United States to the Dominican Republic is 6¢ ($0.06) per minute, while a connection to Cuba, a shorter distance, is 92¢ per minute. To some extent this reflects different costs and efficiencies in different countries, but it is used by some countries as a revenue source.
A few US DIDs are available without monthly charges from vendors like IPKall (discontinued in 2016), but at the expense of the caller paying for a call to some expensive, rural location. The majority of vendors charge a nominal amount per number per month (as little as $1/month in small quantities) and then bill per-minute or per number of ...
These numbers are called grüne Nummer (German) / numéro vert (French) / numero verde (Italian), all meaning "green number". In Taiwan, the toll-free prefix is 0800-xxx-xxx or 0809-xxx-xxx, but not all Taiwanese mobile numbers can call toll free numbers. A toll-free subscriber can decide to restrict a number due to high per-minute mobile rates.
087x xxx xxxx - Service Charge of up to 13p per call and/or up to 13p per minute; 09xx xxx xxxx - Service Charge of up to £6.00 per call and/or up to £3.60 per minute [16] 118 xxx - Service Charge of up to £3.65 per call and/or up to £2.50 per minute, with an overall cap of £3.65 per 90 seconds of a call. [17]
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The service charge may be charged per call, per minute, or a combination of the two. Originally, the per-call part could range from 5p to £16, and applies as soon as the call is answered, and the per-minute part could range from 1p to £8, and may apply either from the start of the call or after the first full minute.