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2. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering ...

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   Most carriers in the United States and in all of Canada use flat-rate billing for local calls, which incur no per-call cost to residential subscribers. Long-distance calls have higher prices. As regulators in North America had long allowed long-distance calling to be priced artificially high in return for artificially low rates for local ...

3. 411 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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   Direct-distance dialing (DDD) was first introduced in areas with common-control switching (panel and crossbar) in the 1950s.These areas had used 411 for directory assistance, and because of the ability of common-control switching to analyze the initial digits of a number in a "sender" before routing the call, these areas did not require the dialing of an initial 1 to initiate a long-distance call.

4. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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   The calling party pays the local rate and the called party pays long-distance call charges (if any). In Indonesia , the toll-free prefix is "0800-1", followed by a six-digit number. In Ireland , 1800- xxxxxx numbers are freephones, with the 1800 71xxxx reserved for services that expect unusually high volumes of calls (e.g. radio station phone ...

5. Long-distance calling - Wikipedia

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   Before direct distance dialing (DDD), all long-distance calls were established by special switchboard operators (long-distance operators) even in exchanges where calls within the local exchange were dialed directly. Completion of long-distance calls was time-consuming and costly as each call was handled by multiple operators in multiple cities.

6. 211 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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   When the states in the US and provinces in Canada were assigned area codes in 1947 by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), direct distance dialing (DDD) using the area code and the local number was introduced starting in 1951, eventually eliminating the use of the prefix. After that, the local telephone providers designated "00 ...

7. Telephone numbers in Canada - Wikipedia

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   For international access the NANP is assigned the country code 1, which is dialed as a prefix in the international E.164 telephone numbering plan.. The trunk prefix for dialing long-distance calls, across numbering plan area (NPA) boundaries within Canada or to other NANP countries, is also 1.