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  2. Operator assistance - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 1-800-FREE-411 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Collect call - Wikipedia

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    It offers reverse charge calls from any fixed line phone, pay phone and most mobile phones (even if the prepaid credit has run out), to most fixed land line and mobile phones in the Republic of Ireland. [13] The company charges €2.99 to connect the call, including the first 60 seconds of the call, and €0.593 for every subsequent minute.

  5. 1-800-COLLECT - Wikipedia

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    Prior to 1993, collect calling was a virtual monopoly held by AT&T as people were accustomed to dialing "0" to place collect calls. MCI moved aggressively to insert itself into the market by launching 1-800-COLLECT that year.

  6. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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    They are toll-free only when dialed from landlines, and charged the same as a land line when dialed from cell phones. In Malaysia the prefix is 1800. Free if calling from a land-line and VoIP only. Calling from mobile phone will be considered a local call, with varying charges depending on the mobile network providers. In Mexico the prefix is 800.

  7. Call-through telecom - Wikipedia

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    The calls do not have to originate on Internet in order to use VoIP. A caller can dial a physical phone number, which is then routed over VoIP to the point when it is terminated at the recipient's physical phone line (fixed landline or wireless mobile or cell line), even in another country. This is what call-through telecom operators do - they ...

  8. Intercept message - Wikipedia

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    If a phone receiver is left off-hook, some phone systems may use an intercept message to inform callers to hang up their phone receivers. The most common message reads as follows: If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator. A formerly-used variation of this message was as ...

  9. Busy line interrupt - Wikipedia

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    Much like long distance calling before the late 1990s, busy line interrupt is a service provided, for instance, to allow people to contact a family member in the event of an emergency if the receiving party's line is busy. The service is not free and is charged whether or not the calling party can reach the person on the other end (as the phone ...