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

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

3. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

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   With "inward WATS", introduced for interstate calls by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1967, subscribers were issued a toll-free telephone number in a designated toll-free area code. Unlike a standard collect call or a call to a Zenith number, 1‑800 normally may be dialed directly with no live operator. Callers within a ...

4. North American Numbering Plan - Wikipedia

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   Some businesses still display a 2L-5N number in advertisements, e.g., the Belvedere Construction Company in Detroit, Michigan not only still uses the 2L-5N format for its number (TYler 8-7100), it uses the format for the toll-free number (1-800-TY8-7100).

5. Directory assistance - Wikipedia

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   Companies requested to have their toll-free number listed, and paid the providers each time their phone number was released to a toll-free directory-assistance caller. In 1999, AT&T applied for permission to discontinue this service, [2] but it remained active until the summer of 2020. An automated disconnection recording now plays when you ...

6. Area codes 212, 646, and 332 - Wikipedia

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   Area code 212 is one of the original North American area codes assigned by AT&T in 1947, originally serving all five boroughs of New York City.For the next 37 years, New York City was one of the largest toll-free calling zones in North America.

7. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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   Toll-free telephone number. A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is a telephone number that is billed for all arriving calls. For the calling party, a call to a toll-free number from a landline is free of charge. A toll-free number is identified by a dialing prefix similar to an area code.