When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Conference call - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_call

   A Polycom phone made specifically for conference calls. A conference call (sometimes called an audio teleconference or ATC) is a telephone call in which someone talks to several people at the same time. The conference call may be designed to allow the called party to participate during the call or set up so that the called party merely listens ...

3. Long-distance calling - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-distance_calling

   Long-distance calling. 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. The term is not necessarily synonymous ...

4. Flat rate - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_rate

   For Internet service providers, flat rate is access to the Internet at all hours and days of the year (linear rate) and for all customers of the telco operator (universal) at a fixed and cheap tariff. Flat rate is common in broadband access to the Internet in the US and many other countries. A charge tariff is a class of linear rate, different ...

5. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Telephone_Service

   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.

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

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-free_telephone...

   Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan have the area code prefix 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888. Additionally, area codes 822, 880 through 887, and 889 are reserved for toll-free use in the future. 811 is excluded because it is a special dialing code in the group NXX for various other purposes.

7. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone...

   Ordinary people either subscribed to telephone service themselves, or used a telephone in the neighborhood, including public pay telephones. Long-distance service was metered and much more expensive than local, flat-rate calling. Ordinary Americans contacted businesses, friends, and relatives.