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2. Vanity number - Wikipedia

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   A vanity number is a local or free-to-call telephone number for which a subscriber requests an easily remembered sequence of numbers for marketing purposes. While many of these are phonewords (such as 1-800-Flowers , 313-DETROIT, 1-800-Taxicab or 1-800-Battery), occasionally all-numeric vanity phone numbers are used.

3. Toll-free number portability - Wikipedia

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   The industry established a body, Industry Number Management Services (INMS) Ltd, to allocate individual numbers and administer the centralised reference database of all allocated local rate and freephone numbers. [1] Vanity numbers, such as phonewords or short 13- series shared-cost service numbers, are made available by auction.

4. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering ...

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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.

5. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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   A toll-free vanity number, custom toll-free number, or mnemonic is easy to remember; it spells and means something or it contains an easily recognized numeric pattern. An easily remembered number is valued as a branding and direct response tool in business advertising.

6. Phoneword - Wikipedia

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   All seven digits were available to construct vanity numbers or phonewords. As toll-free telephone numbers, vanity 800 numbers support flexible call tracking which allows businesses to determine where their incoming call traffic is coming from, build a database of leads, access demographic information on callers, allocate personnel based on ...

7. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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   Telephone numbers starting with the digits 555 are assigned to subscribers as ordinary numbers. Hungarian taxi company Tele5 Taxi uses 555-5555 as a vanity number, [22] while at least one company specializing in vanity numbers [23] sells cell phone numbers starting with the digits 555 for a premium rate, capitalizing on their fame in American ...