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Zone Usage Measurement (ZUM) is the method by which phone companies in California distinguished "local" service from "long distance" service within the service area to which local phone companies used to be restricted. Usually the local calling area includes a 13-mile (21 km) radius from the point of origination.
A trunk call is prefixed with '0' for national calls and '00' for international calls, following the European standard. It is now normal for local calls to cost the same as long-distance UK calls, and is now common, for a small extra monthly charge, to allow free calls to landlines within the UK.
A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is one number that is billed for all arriving calls. For the calling party, a call to a toll-free number from a landline is free of charge. A toll-free number is identified by a dialing prefix similar to an area code. The specific service access varies by country.
Zone 5 uses eight 2-digit codes (51–58) and two sets of 3-digit codes (50x, 59x) to serve South and Central America. Zone 6 uses seven 2-digit codes (60–66) and three sets of 3-digit codes (67x–69x) to serve Southeast Asia and Oceania. Zone 7 uses an integrated numbering plan; two digits (7x) determine the area served: Russia or Kazakhstan.
Each time a call is placed for routing, the destination number (also known as the called party) is entered by the calling party into their terminal. The destination number generally has two parts, an area code which generally identifies the geographical location of the destination telephone, and a telephone number unique within that area code that determines the specific destination terminal.
*70 and 1170 — cancel call waiting on a call-by-call basis *71 and 1171 — three-way calling, which lets a person talk to people in two different locations at the same time *74 and 1174 — speed dial, which allows someone to quickly dial any of eight frequently called numbers using a one-digit code, from any phone on their line
This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing of international telephone calls.These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM-compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, the symbol + before the country code may be used irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the network operator ...