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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.
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.
Although NANP allows businesses within the member country to use the toll-free number system, most toll-free numbers to the United States and Canada remain barred from in the Caribbean unless paid as a toll call.
HOV-3+ and motorcycles toll-free from 5–9 am; 4–7 pm Mon–Fri. HOV-2+ toll free during off peak hours. I-15 (Express Lanes) in San Diego County: 20.0 32.2 SR 163 – San Diego: SR 78 – Escondido: $0.50~$8.00 All-electronic toll; must have FasTrak HOV-2+ and motorcycles toll-free: I-15 (Express Lanes) in Riverside County: 15.0 24.1
toll-free telephone service: December 7, 2013: created; 845: New York (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster counties) June 5, 2000: created by splitting from 914; 2023: overlaid with 329; 846: not in use; available for geographic assignment 847
In the U.S., directory assistance for companies with toll-free "800 numbers" (with area codes 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888) was available from toll-free directory assistance, reachable by dialing 1-800-555-1212, for many decades until it was discontinued in 2020.
Toll-free telephone numbers are often branded using phonewords; some firms use easily memorable vanity telephone numbers like 1-800 Contacts, 1-800-Flowers, 1-866-RING-RING, or 1-800-GOT-JUNK? as brands for flagship products or names for entire companies.
Toll-free number portability. Toll-free number portability (Canada, US, New Zealand) or freephone number portability (Australia, UK) allows the subscriber of a freephone number to switch providers while retaining the same number for incoming calls.
A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a freeway since the 1940s) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented to help recoup the costs of road construction and maintenance.
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