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Metro was established in 1994 as General Wireless, Inc., by Roger Linquist and Malcolm Lorang. [4] PCS referred to the industry term, Personal Communications Service. Its service was first launched in 2002. [5] [6] As of February 2005, MetroPCS had about 1.5 million subscribers in the country. [7]
Callers dial 1-800 (888 or 866)-FREE411 [373-3411] from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service. Sponsors cover part of the service cost by playing advertising messages during the call. Callers always hear an ad at the beginning of the call, and then another after they have made their request.
Several other prefixes, including 800-484, 800-703, 800-744, and 800-904 are reserved by the FCC. NPA-911 is forbidden as 9-1-1 is an emergency telephone number . (This is less restrictive than the rules prohibiting all three-digit N-1-1 codes as exchanges in all geographic area codes.)
A Universal International Freephone Number (UIFN) is a worldwide toll-free "800 number" issued by the International Telecommunication Union. Like the 800 area code issued for the North American Numbering Plan in the United States and Canada and 0800 numbers in many other countries, the call is free for the caller while the receiver pays the ...
In ITU Region 2, PCS are provided in the '1900 MHz' band (specifically 1850–1995 MHz). [5] This frequency band was designated by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Industry Canada to be used for new wireless services to alleviate capacity caps inherent in the original Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) and Digital AMPS (D-AMPS) cellular networks in the '850 MHz ...
Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the four major cellular carriers in the country—AT&T Mobility, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.
On May 1, 1993, the management and assignment of toll-free numbers transitioned from the interim 800 NXX Plan to a 10 digit management plan in the national 800 Service Management System (SMS/800). On January 25, 1995, INC designated the 888 Numbering Plan Area (NPA) code as the next area code for use in providing toll-free service.
Metro: Metro by T-Mobile: Operational: MVNO: Former MetroPCS; CDMA2000 1900 / CDMA2000 1700 shut down in 2015; LTE 1700 merged with T-Mobile US [128] 311: 670: Pine Belt Wireless: Pine Belt Cellular Inc. Operational: LTE 700: Alabama; [128] CDMA shut down [189] 311: 680: GreenFly LLC: Unknown: GSM 1900: Iowa [128] [75] 311: 690: TeleBEEPER of ...