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The WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) line is the heart of all SNCC security and communications. For a flat monthly rate, an unlimited number of calls can be dialed directly to any place in the country — or the state — depending on what line one uses. The Jackson office has a state-wide line, the Atlanta office has the national WATS line.
The inbound service was denoted as InWATS service. Each exchange prefix in area code 800 was assigned to a specific carrier in a specific region (for example, 800-387 was Bell Canada in Toronto ) and the numbers were brought to subscribers (usually large companies or governmental organisations) on special fixed-rate inbound trunks.
The original Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) is obsolete.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 ]
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.
By 1967, a direct-dial 1-800-number could be provided using Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS), but each prefix was tied to a specific geographic destination and each number was installed with special fixed-rate trunks which were priced beyond the reach of most small businesses.
Local number portability (LNP) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability (FMNP) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a "customer of record" of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) to reassign the number to another carrier ("service provider portability"), move it to another location ("geographic portability"), or ...
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Public resistance to the introduction of new area codes, whether as overlay complexes (which allowed customers to keep their existing numbers, but broke seven-digit local calling) or by area code splits (where the area code of existing numbers was changed), prompted the FCC and state commissions to introduce thousands-block number pooling, i.e. the allocation of number space in blocks of only ...