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1222 – Call costs and enquiries service; 1223 – Directory assistance; 1225 – International directory assistance; 123x – Premium operator services (e.g. 1234 is Sensis personal assistance) 124xx – Other operator services (e.g. 12456 is Sensis Call Connect) 125xxx – Telstra mobile services (e.g. 125111 is Telstra mobile customer service)
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
The non-exclusive provision of a) terminal and customer premises equipment, and b) telefax, telex and telegraph services, and cellular radio telephone service. As a private sector utility provider, GTT's operations and conduct are regulated by the Telecoms Act of 1990, the Public Utilities Commission Act of 1990, and the GOG/ATN Agreement.
An emergency phone on the Welsh coast at Trefor featuring 999. (Note the keypad missing digits 4 - 0, with no instruction on how to dial 999 from this phone.) 999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112.
This led to the video game The Last of Us accidentally including the number to a phone-sex operator. [9] The number "555-2368" (or 311-555-2368) is a carryover from the "EXchange 2368" ("Exchange CENTral") number common in telephone advertisements as early as the 1940s.
Mobile telephone numbers, however, always have 10 digits, [1] just like geographic numbers. The non-geographical telephone number categories are, including the trunk access code: 06: mobile telephone operators, 0800: free service numbers, 084, 085: used for VoIP; 087: voicemail and virtual private numbers; 088: large companies with more than ...
At the same time, the opportunity was taken to move directory service from 100 to 018 and charge for directory service calls. The justification for doing so was the introduction of a directory service computer system that gave access to current New Zealand telephone number listings, not just those printed in the telephone book, and the need for ...
Shows Bell's second telephone transmitter , invented 1876 and first displayed at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. This history of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1869.