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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.
In 2008, Long Distance Calling played at the Rock am Ring [1] and Roadburn festivals, and toured Germany in 2009. [2] In 2010, Long Distance Calling and Finnish death/doom band Swallow the Sun supported Katatonia during the New Night Over Europe tour. [3]
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]
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 ...
Long Distance Call "Long Distance Call" is a song by American blues musician Muddy Waters.It was first released as a single in 1951 by Chess Records (#1452), [1] with "Too Young To Know" on the B-side.
Long Distance Calling is the third studio album by German post-rock/post-metal band Long Distance Calling. [2] It was released on 17 February 2011, [ 3 ] through Superball Music and earned the band their first chart entry.
10-10-321, 10-10-345, 10-10-220, and 10-10-987 are United States long-distance phone services best known for their prolific television and direct mail advertising in the late 1990s. 10-10-321 was the first mass-marketed service of its type. 10-10-345 was owned by AT&T, and the rest were all owned by MCI, which is now part of Verizon.
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.