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When a customer decides to use toll-free service, they assign a Responsible Organization (RespOrg) to own and maintain that number. The RespOrg can be either the IXC that is going to deliver the majority of the toll-free services or an independent RespOrg. [6] When a toll-free number is dialed, each digit is analyzed and processed by the LEC.
The Google Maps API was free for commercial use, provided that the site on which it is being used is publicly accessible and did not charge for access, and was not generating more than 25,000 map accesses a day. [135] [136] Sites that did not meet these requirements could purchase the Google Maps API for Business. [137]
Some businesses still display a 2L-5N number in advertisements, e.g., the Belvedere Construction Company in Detroit, Michigan not only still uses the 2L-5N format for its number (TYler 8-7100), it uses the format for the toll-free number (1-800-TY8-7100).
RespOrgs were established in 1993 as part of a Federal Communications Commission order instituting toll-free number portability. [1] A RespOrg (pronounced as though it were a single word, something like "ressporg" ) can be a long-distance company, reseller, end user or an independent that offers an outsourced service.
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 ...
GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) was a telephone service launched by Google in 2007, that provided a speech-recognition-based business directory search, and placed a call to the resulting number in the United States or Canada. [1] The service was accessible via a toll-free telephone number.
Toll-free telephone service is a telecommunication service in which subscribers are assigned telephone number in NPAs 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, and 833. Calls to these numbers incur no toll charges for callers. The American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) first introduced 800 toll-free service in 1967. [2]
Companies requested to have their toll-free number listed, and paid the providers each time their phone number was released to a toll-free directory-assistance caller. In 1999, AT&T applied for permission to discontinue this service, [ 2 ] but it remained active until the summer of 2020.