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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. 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.

  4. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    A "white pages" telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory.

  5. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    0800 lines are used by companies, and it is the receiver and not the caller who pays for the call, so that potential clients are encouraged to contact business companies for free. 0810 lines are paid by the caller, but the cost is for a local call, even if you are calling from a different area. The remaining is covered by the receiver.

  6. 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".

  7. Telephony - Wikipedia

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    Telephony (/ t ə ˈ l ɛ f ə n i / tə-LEF-ə-nee) is the field of technology involving the development, application, and deployment of telecommunications services for the purpose of electronic transmission of voice, fax, or data, between distant parties.

  8. Voicemail - Wikipedia

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    A voicemail system (also known as voice message or voice bank) is a computer-based system that allows callers to leave a recorded message when the recipient has been unable or unwilling to answer the phone.

  9. Mobile Telephone Switching Office - Wikipedia

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    It is responsible for interconnecting calls with the local and long distance landline telephone companies, compiling billing information (with the help of its CBM/SDM), etc. It also provides resources needed to efficiently serve a mobile subscriber such as registration, authentication, location updating and call routing.