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2. Long-distance calling - Wikipedia

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   Long-distance calling from landlines was opened to competition in the early 1990s and the use of long-distance revenue to subsidise local service was phased out a few years later. It is not possible for mobile telephone subscribers or coin-paid telephone users to select a default carrier, so long-distance calls are often priced higher from ...

3. 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]

4. Altafiber - Wikipedia

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   Cincinnati Bell, Inc., doing business as Altafiber, [3] is a regional telecommunications service provider based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.It provides landline telephone, fiber-optic Internet, and IPTV services through its subsidiaries Altafiber Home Phone and Hawaiian Telcom, which are the incumbent local exchange carriers for the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area (aka "The Tri ...

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. Local exchange carrier - Wikipedia

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   Local toll calls are each billed at + (), where is minimum charge for a local toll call, is the per-minute charge, and is the duration of the call in minutes. Local toll calls are traditionally grouped into two price ranges, called "near zone" and "far zone", with values of m {\displaystyle m} and p {\displaystyle p} higher for far zone.

7. Still love your landline? Phone service providers are getting ...

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   “Traditional landline telephone service is the most dependable communications tool currently available in rural communities and is vital to reliably accessing 9-1-1,” he said.