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2. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

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   Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) was a flat-rate long-distance service for customer dial-type telecommunications in the service areas of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The service was between a given customer phone (also known as a "station") and stations within specified geographic rate areas, employing a single telephone line ...

3. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan

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   The first automated toll-free telephone numbers were assigned with area code 800, created as inbound Wide Area Telephone Service (InWATS) in 1966 (U.S. intrastate) and 1967 (interstate). These terminated on special fixed-rate trunks which would accept calls from a specified calling area with either no limit or a specific maximum number of hours ...

4. Toll-free number portability - Wikipedia

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   Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) was introduced in the United States on January 15, 1961. [3] Customers paid a flat-rate monthly service fee for large-volume interstate long-distance over a wide area. The inbound service was denoted as InWATS service.

5. Original North American area codes - Wikipedia

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   The series N00 was used later for non-geographic numbers, starting with intrastate toll-free 800 numbers for Inward Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) in 1965. [17] N10 numbers became teletypewriter exchanges, [18] and N11 were used for special services, such as information and emergency services.

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   Comparing plans, Verizon offers its unlimited one-phone plan for $75 a month ($25 more than Consumer Cellular), AT&T’s version of this plan is $65.99 a month ($15.99 more), and T-Mobile’s plan ...

7. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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   The original Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) is obsolete. North American toll-free numbers are controlled by an intelligent network database ( SMS/800 ) in which any toll-free number may be directed to any geographic telephone number under the control of any of various RespOrgs . [ 40 ]