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2. 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. The specific service access varies by country.

3. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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   Timeline of the telephone This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone.

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

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   Calls to the toll-free numbers are charged to the receiving party, and are free to the caller if dialed from land-line telephones, but may incur mobile airtime charges for cellular service.

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

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   The technology steadily advanced. Starting around the turn of the century, the dial telephone allowed users to place calls themselves without operator assistance. By mid-century, mobile radio telephone service became available to free users from fixed locations in some cities. The arrival of the smartphone in the early 21st century provided every user a small mobile computer with microphone ...

6. Landline - Wikipedia

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   A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN). Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire to a telephone exchange.

7. Long-distance calling - Wikipedia

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   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.