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  2. Landline - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Landline phone numbers begin with the area code, then one digit for the operator code, then six digits for the primary telephone number. Format: (XXX Y ZZZZZZ) where: "xxx" denotes the area code. All area codes begin with the number 0. The operator code for fixed (landline) numbers is "y".

  4. 6-1-1 - Wikipedia

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    Many landline and mobile phone providers support 611. Some providers who supply other services, such as Internet or cable television, support these other services with 611. While 611 has not been officially designated by the FCC, the code receives nearly 74 million calls annually, making it the most frequently used N11 number in the United States.

  5. List of telephony terminology - Wikipedia

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    Call originator - (or calling party, caller or A-party) a person or device that initiates a telephone call by dialling a telephone number.; Call waiting - a system that notifies a caller of another incoming telephone call by sounding a sound in the earpiece.

  6. Things Boomers Took for Granted That are Obsolete Now

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    The landline was born and it dominated for more than a century. The mobile era, however, signaled the end for the old-fashioned landline. The mobile era, however, signaled the end for the old ...

  7. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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    From a landline, these are free. From cell phones, airtime is not covered, but there are no long-distance charges. In Chile, the toll-free prefix is "800" followed by a six-digit number. These numbers are called número 800 (800 number). These numbers cannot be accessed from abroad. In Colombia, toll-free numbers start with "018000".

  8. Automatic number announcement circuit - Wikipedia

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    The facility has a telephone number that may be called to listen to an automatic announcement that includes the caller's telephone number. The ANAC facility is useful primarily during the installation of landline telephones to quickly identify one of multiple wire pairs in a bundle or at a termination point.

  9. Telephone line - Wikipedia

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    Telephone lines are used to deliver landline telephone service and digital subscriber line (DSL) phone cable service to the premises. [3] Telephone overhead lines are connected to the public switched telephone network.