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A standard United Kingdom fixed telephone number (i.e. a landline, or geographical number, as opposed to a mobile telephone number or special rate non-geographic fixed line) is divided into three parts, the trunk prefix code (0 in the UK), an STD code (area code) followed by a local number. The STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialling) code indicates the ...
In Australia, the number 1194 was the speaking clock in all areas. The service started in 1953 by the Post Master General's Department, originally to access the talking clock on a rotary dial phone, callers would dial "B074", during the transition from a rotary dial to a DTMF based phone system, the talking clock number changed from "B074" to 1194.
As BT no longer has a monopoly of internal wiring, they make a substantial charge if a fault reported to them is found to be in the customer's internal/domestic wiring. It is therefore important for the customer to have the facility to check whether a fault is in their internal wiring/equipment or externally in BT's cabling or systems.
In practice, such charging rates applied only from BT lines and calls typically cost 16p per minute from non-BT landlines and up to 45p per minute from mobile telephones. In 1999, landline providers started to offer "inclusive" call packages where calls to 01 and 02 numbers were free. Within a few years most customers were on this type of plan.
Landline service is typically provided through the outside plant of a telephone company's central office, or wire center. The outside plant comprises tiers of cabling between distribution points in the exchange area, so that a single pair of copper wire, or an optical fiber, reaches each subscriber location, such as a home or office, at the network interface.
Non-unique printed or written overlined character groups, [a] e.g. BT Although some of the prosigns as-written appear to be simply two adjacent letters, most prosigns are transmitted as digraphs that have no pauses between the patterns that represent the "combined" letters, and are most commonly written with a single bar over the merged letters ...
20th century Bell Canada demarcation point for a single phone line. The spark-gap surge protectors on the left have hex heads for easy removal. Near center, a post is connected to the house's ground. The other two connection points are for tip and ring. A test jack can be attached nearby so the home-owner or tenant can verify whether the inside ...
Fault mimics to present to the exchange's test equipment. An analogue modem to receive data calls for remote diagnostics. A battery backed real-time clock and memory to store the time and type of fault events like bit errors. A 25-pin RS232 connector for local access to the SMAC card's diagnostic logs.