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In towns too small to support a phone office, placing long-distance calls was a sideline for some businesses with telephones, such as pharmacies. In some countries, such as Canada and the United States , long-distance rates were historically kept artificially high to subsidize unprofitable flat-rate local residential services.
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In the United States, as of 2011 the termination charge for cellular calls was eliminated by federal regulation, meaning that as perceived by the consumer, there is no difference between the cost of calling a phone on a cell phone network and a phone on the traditional wired network ("land line").
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They are free of charge if called from a mobile phone or a land line. The "1860" prefix followed by seven digits is used for local-rate numbers. 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.
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Some are not accessible from pay phones. Calls from pay phones assess the toll-free owner an additional fee in the U.S., as mandated by the FCC. Although toll-free numbers are not accessible internationally, many phone services actually call through the U.S., and in this case the toll-free numbers become available.
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