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2. 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. The term is not necessarily synonymous ...

3. Flat rate - Wikipedia

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   A "flat rate" (more accurately known as fixed rate) for electricity is a fixed price per unit ( kWh ), not a fixed price per month, and thus different from that for other services. An electric utility that charges a flat rate for electricity does not charge different rates based upon the demand that the customer places on the system.

4. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

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   Wide Area Telephone Service ( WATS) was a flat-rate long-distance service for customer dial-type telecommunications in the service areas of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The service was between a given customer phone (also known as a "station") and stations within specified geographic rate areas, employing a single telephone line ...

5. Globalization - Wikipedia

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   Before electronic communications, long-distance communications relied on mail. Speed of global communications was limited by the maximum speed of courier services (especially horses and ships) until the mid-19th century. The electric telegraph was the first method of instant long-distance communication. For example, before the first ...

6. 18 clever ways to save money — and take a bite out of inflation

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   When a situation arises in which you need to spend it, withdrawing the sum of those incremental deposits can feel like free money. 6. Order grocery pickup. Perhaps the ecosystem in which impulse ...

7. 9 Best Banks To Avoid ATM Fees - AOL

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   This way, the flat rate ATM fee becomes less, as a percentage, of the amount and allows you to incur the fee only once. ... Unlimited ATM fee reimbursement if your minimum average daily balance is ...

8. 10-10-321 - Wikipedia

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   10-10-321, 10-10-345, 10-10-220, and 10-10-987 are United States long-distance phone services best known for their prolific television and direct mail advertising in the late 1990s. 10-10-321 was the first mass-marketed service of its type. 10-10-345 was owned by AT&T, and the rest were all owned by Telecom USA, which was owned by MCI; MCI is now part of Verizon.

9. Flat rate (finance) - Wikipedia

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   Benefits of flat rate lending. Flat interest rates have the following advantages: They are easy to calculate and track: Flat interest rates require no calculations to blend principal and interest into a level payment and, as long as these are made on time, require no compounding calculations (see the example to the right). Flat rates keep loan ...