In the mid-1960s, toll-free service was born, along with some limitations that reduced its service range. Shortly after toll-free service came into existence, a restriction in switching capability ...

You may have more use for those old 800 numbers than you think. In December 2013, the FCC started activating numbers under the new Toll Free 844 area code. The following is a historic perspective of ...

The toll free 800 number was born out of the long distance era. I call it the long distance era because that was where the “value” was in voice telecommunications. We have since moved beyond this era, ...