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In the early 1980s, Bell Labs received a patent for what became AT&T's "Advanced 800 Service", a computer-controlled system where any toll-free number could point to any destination number, such as to a small business local number instead of a special InWATS line, and an itemized bill generated only for the calls the business actually received.
Callers spoof the caller ID number of the victim's actual lending institution, swindling money from those seeking financial relief. FCC warns of 50-state scam by fraudsters posing as mortgage ...
In theory, a consumer from any area code could be invited to dial a seven-digit number such as 555-TAXI and the owners of that number could connect the call to a local car service. According to a 2003 New York Times article, the desired functionality requires the cooperation of local phone authorities, and most phone companies have been ...
600: Canadian non-geographic tariffed: teleprinter, caller-pays mobile, etc. October 1, 1993: rarely used, but serves some satellite phones in the Canadian high Arctic; Canadian TWX service used area code 610 until 1992, when it was exchanged for 600. 2015: 622 was activated for Canadian non-geographic use; 2023: 622 was overlaid with 633 for ...
A system similar to 1800 numbering exists where 6 or 10 digit numbers prefixed with 13 (one-three), 1300 or 1301 (colloquially one-three-hundred) can be called at local call rates regardless of the caller's location. Callers to a 13 number are charged a "connection fee" by their telephone provider.
Area code 600 has a capacity of 798 central office prefixes (200 to 999, with 555 and 911 not issued). Six relief area codes (622, 633, 644, 655, 677 and 688) are reserved by NANPA as subject to assignment in Canada for expansion of non-geographic services [5] but have never been used. Area code 666 is not assigned.
In Hungary, telephone numbers are in the format 06 + area code + subscriber number, where the area code is a single digit 1 for Budapest, the capital, followed by a seven digit subscriber number, and two digits followed by either seven (for cell phone numbers) or six digits (others). for other areas, cell phone numbers or non-geographic numbers ...
The WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) line is the heart of all SNCC security and communications. For a flat monthly rate, an unlimited number of calls can be dialed directly to any place in the country — or the state — depending on what line one uses. The Jackson office has a state-wide line, the Atlanta office has the national WATS line.