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2. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering ...

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   In the early 1980s, Bell Labs received a patent for what became AT&T's "Advanced 800 Service", a computer-controlled system where any toll-free number could point to any destination number, such as to a small business local number instead of a special InWATS line, and an itemized bill generated only for the calls the business actually received.

3. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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   A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is one number that is ... After competitive carriers were allowed to compete with AT&T in establishing toll-free ...

4. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

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   With "inward WATS", introduced for interstate calls by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1967, subscribers were issued a toll-free telephone number in a designated toll-free area code. Unlike a standard collect call or a call to a Zenith number, 1‑800 normally may be dialed directly with no live operator. Callers within a ...

5. Long-distance calling - Wikipedia

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   By the 1980s, computerisation of the system allowed British Telecom "Linkline" 0800 freephone numbers and AT&T +1-800- toll-free numbers to be controlled by a database and terminated virtually anywhere with each inbound call itemised and billed individually. This smart network was further refined to provide toll-free number portability in the ...

6. Automatic number identification - Wikipedia

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   Modern toll-free telephone numbers, which generate itemized billing of all calls received instead of relying on the special fixed-rate trunks of the Bell System's original Inward WATS service, depend on ANI to track inbound calls to numbers in special area codes such as +1-800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, and 833 with 822 reserved for future toll free use (United States and Canada), 1800 ...

7. AT&T apologizes for massive system failure but rules out ...

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   According to the latest numbers, just about 7,000 people continue to experience outages. ... AT&T said it had restored all of its network around 3pm. ... The 25 best cheap or free things to do in ...

8. Home Country Direct - Wikipedia

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   The Home Country Direct number is usually a domestic toll-free number, and is specific to the pairing of originating and receiving countries. The first such services were established in the early 1980s by AT&T as "USA Direct"; reciprocal services from the United States were later established, and other countries also established the services ...

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