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2. Long-distance calling - Wikipedia

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   In telecommunications, a long-distance call (U.S.) or trunk call (also known as a toll call in the U.K. [citation needed]) is a telephone call made to a location outside a defined local calling area. Long-distance calls are typically charged a higher billing rate than local calls.

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 numbers in the North American Numbering ...

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   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 service, subscribers tended to make toll calls rarely and to keep them deliberately brief. [citation needed]

5. 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 ...

6. Direct distance dialing - Wikipedia

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   The first direct-dialed long-distance telephone calls were possible in the New Jersey communities of Englewood and Teaneck.Customers of the ENglewood 3, ENglewood 4 and TEaneck 7 exchanges, who could already dial telephone numbers in the New York City area, could place calls to eleven major cities across the United States by dialing the three-digit area code and the seven-digit directory number.

7. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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   Calls are made to Cowes, Southampton and London, the first long-distance calls in the UK. [12] The queen asks to buy the equipment that was used, but Bell offers to make a model specifically for her. [13] 28 January 1878: The first commercial North American telephone exchange is opened in New Haven, Connecticut.