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Freefone
Freefone, n. (ˈfriːfəʊn) Also Freephone and with lower-case initial. [f. free a. + fone altered f. phone n.2] The name of a service operated in the U.K. by British Telecom whereby the charge for calls made to an organization, esp. for information or to make use of a service, is borne by the organiza...
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Freefone
Freefonen [U] (Brit) system in which the person making a telephone call does not pay for the cost of the call 免费通话(打电话者不必付费的通话方式) Ring the operator and ask for Freefone 8921. 接通接线生, 然後要免费通话8921号.
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Toll-free number portability
Europe and UK
United Kingdom numbers in the 0800 range (BT Freefone) first became portable in June 1997. Previously, rival carriers used differing area codes, 0800 for BT Freefone and 0500 for Cable & Wireless Freecall numbers.
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Collect call
In the United Kingdom, Freefone numbers provided this service.
In popular culture
The movie Dr.
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Toll-free telephone number
Until the introduction of InWATS toll-free service by the Bell System on May 2, 1967 and the Linkline (later "Freefone") 0800 services by British Telecom No more need to manually ring the operator, two new prefixes 0800 (an automated toll-free service which became "Freefone") and 0345 (a shared-cost service
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Big Number Change
The 0800 (BT Freefone) code has remained, but no new nine-digit numbers have been allocated since 1997.
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O
▪ I. O (əʊ) the fifteenth letter of the alphabet in English and other modern languages, and the fourth vowel letter. O was the fourteenth letter in the ancient Roman alphabet, corresponding in form and value to the ancient Greek ο, derived from the sixteenth letter of the Phœnician and ancient Semit...
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Missing People
The service used the Freefone number 0500 700 700 ( and this continued in operation until June 2017, when Ofcom closed down all remaining 0500 numbers)
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Comparison of American and British English
The term "freefone" is a BT trademark.
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