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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.
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE or SDG&E) is a regulated public utility that provides natural gas and electricity to San Diego County and southern Orange County in southwestern California, United States. It is owned by Sempra, a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego.
Open competition also brought an end to the pattern of long distance subsidizing local service, bringing per-minute charges down to levels where any business could afford to take orders using an 800-number. Originally, 800 service in the US and 800 service in Canada were isolated from each other, but in 1984, an agreement between carriers in ...
Calls are free for all fixed line calls. Mobile carriers AIS and CAT (60+%o f Thailand's subscribers) offer 1-800 service for cell phones. DTAC and True mobile providers currently [when?] do not, but it is expected they will offer the 1-800 service for subscribers by late 2009. [needs update] In Turkey, the prefix for toll-free numbers is "0800".
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]
In September 2019, the service was revamped and rebranded again as Voice Info, with once again a toll-free number (866) 895-3124, [12] however this number was deactivated in July 2020. [13] The old Microsoft Bing 411 1-800-CALL-411 number can now be used to access Voice Info by pressing 9 when connected.
A number offering a directory inquiries service allowing people to request to be put through to a mobile phone number was established in June 2009. [14] 118 800 proved to be controversial, however, when it was revealed that it was making available 15 million mobile numbers that it had bought from market researchers. [15]
1-800-COLLECT (1-800-265-5328) is a 1-800 number, owned and operated by WiMacTel, which provides fixed rate collect calling in the United States. The service was launched by MCI in 1993. History