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

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    Private conversation, 1910. Historian John Brooks argues that the telephone created "a new habit of mind--a habit of tenseness and alertness, of demanding and expecting immediate results, whether in business, love or other forms of social intercourse." [70] The telephone was instrumental to modernization.

  3. List of counties in California - Wikipedia

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    Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.

  4. Telephone numbers in Algeria - Wikipedia

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    Fixed-line (landline) numbers. Calls within an area code (The area code is a 2 digits number, i.e. 21, 41, 46 0 THE-AREA-CODE xx xx xx. C; Calls from outside Algeria ("yy" is the area code) +213 yy xx xx xx. Mobile numbers. Calls from Algeria ("y" is the operator code, 5 for Ooredoo, 6 for Mobilis, 7 for Djezzy) 0yxx xx xx xx

  5. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    When the Bell telephone patents expired and many new telephone manufacturers began competing, acoustic telephone makers quickly went out of business. Their maximum range was very limited. [2] An example of one such company was the Pulsion Telephone Supply Company created by Lemuel Mellett in Massachusetts, which designed its version in 1888 and ...

  6. Area code 246 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 246 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Barbados. [1] The sequence 246 spells BIM on an alpha-numeric telephone keypad, a nickname for the island. [2] Telecommunication services and telephone numbers in Barbados are administered by the Ministry of Finance, Investment, Telecommunications and ...

  7. Telephone numbers in Israel - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers in Israel consist of an area code and a subscriber number. The dial plan type in Israel is closed, and "0" is the internal trunk prefix in Israel. Israel's country calling code is +972. When dialing an Israeli number from inside of Israel, the format is: "0 - area/network operator code (A/N) - subscriber number (X)"

  8. North American Numbering Plan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Telephone numbers in Finland - Wikipedia

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    Finnish mobile numbers start with 04x, 0457 or 050. The format for mobile telephone numbers is 04x 123 45 67 or 0457 123 45 67 or 050 123 45 67. When called from a different country, the format is + 358 4x 123 45 67 or + 358 50 123 45 67. Most commonly 7 digits are used for the subscriber number.