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Seven-digit dialing

Index Seven-digit dialing

Seven-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure customary in the territories of the North American Numbering Plan, for dialing telephone numbers in the local calling area. [1]

33 relations: Area code 202, Area code 334, Area code 360, Area codes 240 and 301, Area codes 571 and 703, Area codes 613 and 343, Area codes 819 and 873, Bell System, Central office code protection, Direct distance dialing, E.164, Hull, Quebec, Interchangeable NPA code, Linked numbering scheme, List of country calling codes, List of original NANP area codes, Local call, Long-distance calling, Mobile phone, Montreal, New York City, North American Numbering Plan, Ottawa, Overlay plan, Party line (telephony), PEnnsylvania 6-5000, Switchboard operator, Telephone exchange, Telephone number, Telephone numbering plan, Ten-digit dialing, Toronto, Voice over IP.

Area code 202

Area code 202 is the North American telephone area code for Washington, D.C..

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Area code 334

Area code 334 is a NANPA area code serving southeastern Alabama.

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Area code 360

Area code 360 is the telephone area code for western Washington state outside metropolitan Seattle.

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Area codes 240 and 301

North American area codes 240 and 301 are telephone area codes for the western half of Maryland.

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Area codes 571 and 703

Area codes 703 and 571 are the North American Numbering Plan telephone area codes for northern Virginia, including the independent cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park, as well as all of Arlington and Fairfax counties and parts of Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford counties.

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Area codes 613 and 343

Area code 613 and overlay area code 343 are area codes for Ottawa and surrounding Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).

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Area codes 819 and 873

Area codes 819 and 873 are area codes for central and western Quebec, Canada, including the Quebec portion of the National Capital Region, and the entire Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay coastlines of Quebec.

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Bell System

The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly.

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Central office code protection

In the administration of the North American Numbering Plan, central office code protection was a numbering policy intended to ensure that the same local telephone number was not assigned in both of a pair of adjacent communities on opposite sides of an area code boundary.

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Direct distance dialing

Direct distance dialing (DDD) is a telecommunication service feature in which a caller may, without operator assistance, call any other user outside the local calling area.

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E.164

E.164 is an ITU-T recommendation, titled The international public telecommunication numbering plan, that defines a numbering plan for the worldwide public switched telephone network (PSTN) and some other data networks.

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Hull, Quebec

Hull is the central district and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

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Interchangeable NPA code

Within the North American Numbering Plan, an interchangeable NPA code is a numbering plan area (NPA) code (area code) of the telephone network that does not have the digits 0 or 1 in the second (middle) position.

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Linked numbering scheme

A linked numbering scheme (LNS) is a telephone numbering plan in effect in a service area within which call routing between subscriber lines on adjacent exchanges does not require a dialing code.

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List of country calling codes

Country calling codes or country dial in codes are telephone dialing prefixes for the member countries or regions of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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List of original NANP area codes

This is the list of original North American Numbering Plan area codes of 86 plan areas as defined by AT&T in 1947.

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Local call

In telephony, the term local call has the following meanings.

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Long-distance calling

In telecommunications, a long-distance call or trunk call is a telephone call made to a location outside a defined local calling area.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan that encompasses 25 distinct regions in twenty countries primarily in North America, including the Caribbean and the U.S. territories.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Overlay plan

In telecommunications, an overlay numbering plan is the practice of introducing a new area code by assigning it to an existing numbering plan area (NPA) that already has an area code assigned.

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Party line (telephony)

A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers.

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PEnnsylvania 6-5000

PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is a telephone number in New York City, written in the 2L+5N (two letters, five numbers) format that was common in the largest US cities from approximately 1930 into the 1960s.

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Switchboard operator

In the early days of telephony, through roughly the 1960s, companies used manual telephone switchboards, and switchboard operators connected calls by inserting a pair of phone plugs into the appropriate jacks.

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Telephone exchange

A telephone exchange is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network or in large enterprises.

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Telephone number

A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a fixed-line telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other private networks.

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Telephone numbering plan

A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.

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Ten-digit dialing

In the United States and Canada, ten-digit dialing is the practice of including the area code of a telephone number when dialing to initiate a telephone call.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol (also voice over IP, VoIP or IP telephony) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-digit_dialing

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