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Direct Dial Central Office (Opposite of DID) US DDD: Direct Distance Dialing: US DDI: Direct Dialing In: UK DECT: Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications DID: Direct Inward Dialing: US DMS: Digital Multiplex System (e.g. DMS-100) Can DNIS: Dialed Number Identification System: US DSL: Digital subscriber line DTMF: dual-tone multi-frequency FDM
The first direct-dialed long-distance telephone calls were possible in the New Jersey communities of Englewood and Teaneck.Customers of the ENglewood 3, ENglewood 4 and TEaneck 7 exchanges, who could already dial telephone numbers in the New York City area, could place calls to eleven major cities across the United States by dialing the three-digit area code and the seven-digit directory number.
A vertical service code (VSC) is a sequence of digits and the signals star (*) and pound/hash (#) dialed on a telephone keypad or rotary dial to access certain telephone service features. [1] Some vertical service codes require dialing of a telephone number after the code sequence.
DirecTV (DTV) customers who were planning to kick back on the couch to go channel surfing Tuesday morning were in for a rude awakening. A mysterious glitch caused high-definition recorders to get ...
A telephone line is terminated at a telephone interface (fax modem) of a computer that runs fax server software. A set of digits of the assigned phone number is used to identify the recipient of the fax. This allows many recipients to have individual fax numbers while sharing only a few receiving interfaces (fax modems).
Direct inward dial (DID) service also provides DNIS. For example, a company may have a different toll-free telephone number for each product line it sells, or for multilingual customer support . If a call center is handling calls for multiple product lines, the corporate telephone system that receives the call analyzes the DNIS signaling and ...
On November 10, 1951, the first direct dial long-distance telephone call in North America was placed from Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey to Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California via AT&T's Bell System. [5] The ten digit call (seven digits plus a three-digit area code) was connected automatically within 18 seconds. [6]
Subscriber trunk dialling (STD), also known as subscriber toll dialing, is a telephone numbering plan feature and telecommunications technology in the United Kingdom and various Commonwealth countries for the dialling of trunk calls by telephone subscribers without the assistance of switchboard operators.