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  2. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of toll roads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering ...

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    Contents. Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Toll road - Wikipedia

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    This shows the two common methods of collection of tolls: tollbooth (on right) and electronic toll collection (on left). A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a freeway in the present day) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented ...

  7. Directory assistance - Wikipedia

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    Toll-free directory assistance was provided by telecommunication providers, namely AT&T and Verizon, as mandated by the Federal Communications Commission. Companies requested to have their toll-free number listed, and paid the providers each time their phone number was released to a toll-free directory-assistance caller.

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

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    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. 888: toll-free telephone service: March 1, 1996: created; 889: not in use; available for toll-free ...

  9. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    These calls are billed at different rates. 1-800: Toll-free calls redirected to out of country offices and 1-801: Local toll-free calls. Honduras. Honduran telephone numbers have either seven digits (for landlines), which are usually written NNN-NNNN, or eight digits (for mobile numbers), which are written NNNN-NNNN. The fact that landline and ...