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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.
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. 811 is excluded because it is a special dialing code in the group NXX for various other purposes.
Although NANP allows businesses within the member country to use the toll-free number system, most toll-free numbers to the United States and Canada remain barred from in the Caribbean unless paid as a toll call.
A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a freeway since the 1940s) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented to help recoup the costs of road construction and maintenance.
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.
RespOrg. 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.
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.
toll-free telephone service: December 7, 2013: created; 845: New York (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster counties) June 5, 2000: created by splitting from 914; 2023: overlaid with 329; 846: not in use; available for geographic assignment 847
Toll-free number portability. Toll-free number portability (Canada, US, New Zealand) or freephone number portability (Australia, UK) allows the subscriber of a freephone number to switch providers while retaining the same number for incoming calls.
In the United States, the 988 number was implemented in July 2022 as an evolution of its predecessor, a 1-800 number that began in 2005. The new 988 number extends to over two hundred crisis centers that provide 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline.