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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.
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.
System-wide toll-free calling, for which the receiving party is billed for the call, uses the number range with area codes of the form 8XX. Area code and central office prefixes for other non-geographic services have the form 5XX-NXX.
Oregon. Barlow Road —tolls in effect from 1864 to 1919; no longer a viable route due to the eastern portion being overgrown; most western portions are paved over by modern roads. Santiam Wagon Road —tolls in effect from 1861 to 1915. Closely parallels the route of U.S. Route 20 through the Cascades.
Codes 880 through 882 were used (until 1 April 2004) to allow international customers to access toll-free numbers they otherwise could not by paying the international portion of the toll. 880 was paired with 800, 881 with 888, and 882 with 877.
Toll Free: These are usually ten digit numbers beginning with 800 or 400. 800 (toll-free) are accessible only when called from landline phones, while 400 (shared toll) are accessible from all phones. 400 XXX XXXX or 800 XXXX XXXX.
A RespOrg, or responsible organization, is a company that maintains the registration for individual toll-free telephone numbers In the North American Numbering Plan by means of the distributed Service Management System/800 database.
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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.
Area code 416 was one of the 86 original North American area codes, assigned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) for Operator Toll Dialing in 1947. It comprised most of the populous Golden Horseshoe region in southern Ontario, from Colborne to Niagara Falls to Kitchener-Waterloo.