The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission has received further accolades for their steady teamwork approach to protecting America’s investors as the agency ranked as one of the top five mid-size federal workplaces in government. Is SEC a good thing? The SEC gives investors confidence in the U.S. stock […]
The letters are there to just help you memorize the phone number. For example, 567–789-FAST (not real number) should be dialed as 567-789-3278. It is a standard feature of every phone to have letters under the digits in the phone app or non-smartphone. What does it mean when there are […]
Domestic phones in the 1940s The 1940s phones were black and made of Bakelite, an early plastic which chipped easily. They were in two parts, the handset and the base unit. When did cell phones first appear? The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first handheld cellular phone that allowed people […]
1920s. Telephones in the ’20s typically had a separate mouthpiece and receiver. The design was known as the candlestick design and newer versions had a dial on the front so a person could call numbers directly. How do I make a call in the 1920s? In those years, making a […]
A line number is the last four digits of a phone number. It’s a code that belongs to a specific device (within the area code and prefix). While the area code and prefix pinpoint the location, the line number identifies the exact person you’re trying to contact. What are the […]
A six-digit phone number is referred to as a short code (there are also some instances of 5-digit short codes). These short code numbers were created by the major wireless carriers in 2003 to allow marketers to easily communicate with consumers. What is a 6 digit number? What is a […]
By 1900 there were nearly 600,000 phones in Bell’s telephone system; that number shot up to 2.2 million phones by 1905, and 5.8 million by 1910. How common were telephones 1914? In 1914, at the start of World War I, there were 10 people for every working telephone in the […]
History. Area code 201 was the first-assigned numbering plan area (NPA) code of the original NPAs when AT&T devised the North American Numbering Plan in 1947. What was the first area code ever? The first area code (201) was given to the entire state of New Jersey, the state with […]
8 digit numbers start with ten million (one crore), which is 1, followed by 7 zeros and is written as 10000000. 8 Digit Numbers. 1. What are Numbers Up to 8 Digits? 2. Reading 8 Digit Numbers 3. Place Value of 8 Digit Numbers 4. Decomposing 8 Digit Numbers What […]
This dialing plan was incompatible with the introduction of area code 334 and area code 360, and was therefore eliminated by January 1, 1995 in the United States, and by September 1994 in Canada. What happens if you dial 7? In many places, you can call up a neighbor or […]
With the introduction of trunk dialing, the need for all callers to be able to dial numbers with letters in them led to the much more widespread use of lettered dials. The need for dials with letters ceased with the conversion to all-digit numbering in 1968. When did they get […]
The service allows persons to call the AT&T Directory Assistance Bureau by dialing 1-800-555-1212, to obtain the toll-free service number associated with a particular toll-free service listing. What happens if you dial a 555 number? These were an early form of regional tollfree number which required operator assistance. Only 555-0100 […]
Although there is no way to block this service without usage controls, you can always dial 1(800)373-3411. This is the free 411 service you can use and stop the 411 charges. Can you block someone from calling 411? Go to Features & Settings and click Calling Features. Scroll to 411 […]
The leading letters of a central office name were used as the leading components of the telephone number representation, so that each telephone number in an area was unique. These letters were mapped to digits, which was indicated visibly on a dial telephone. Why do some phone numbers start with […]
A six-digit phone number is referred to as a short code (there are also some instances of 5-digit short codes). These short code numbers were created by the major wireless carriers in 2003 to allow marketers to easily communicate with consumers. How many 6 digit phone numbers are there? Hence, […]