WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 411 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)

    411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [1] although its official name is "directory assistance". [2]

  3. Directory assistance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_assistance

    Toll-free directory assistance. 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.

  4. List of North American Numbering Plan area codes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American...

    411: Not assignable; N11 code for local information, ... California's 40th area code; 838: New York ... available for toll-free assignment: Codes 880 through 882 were ...

  5. North American Numbering Plan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan

    1. International access. 011. List of dialing codes. The North American Numbering Plan ( NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the telephone country code 1. Some North American countries, most notably ...

  6. All-number calling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Number_Calling

    All-number calling. All-number calling ( ANC) is a telephone numbering plan that was introduced into the North American Numbering Plan by the Bell System in the United States starting in 1958 [1] to replace the previous system of using a telephone exchange name as the first part of a telephone number. [2] The plan prescribed the format of a ...

  7. List of California area codes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_area_codes

    The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [1] As of July 2023, California has 38 active area codes. Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Turlock; the northern San Joaquin Valley and the central Sierra ...

  8. 1-800-FREE-411 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-800-FREE-411

    Service. Callers dial 1-800 (888 or 866)-FREE411 [373-3411] from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service. Sponsors cover part of the service cost by playing advertising messages during the call. Callers always hear an ad at the beginning of the call, and then another after they have made their request.

  9. Area codes 415 and 628 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_415_and_628

    Area codes 415 and 628 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of San Francisco and its northern suburbs in Marin County (across the Golden Gate ), and the northeast corner of San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California. Area code 415 was one of the eighty-six original North American area codes ...