Talk:Toll-free telephone number

message: I was reading a proposal by the CPUC that referred to "8YY" which the document defined as "800 or 800-like ... toll-free services". Is that a generally used term that should be added to the article? The "8YY" use is on page 5 of this proposal for basic telephone service revisions. --Elijah (talk) 01:01, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Most likely, 8YY is a catch-all for a series of area codes... 844, 855, 866, 877, 888 and 800. No advantage to "8YY" vs. using "toll-free number" as the latter is broad enough to include domestic toll-free services in other countries which number things differently. K7L (talk) 04:21, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  8YY 

message: I think Hungary's freephone prefix should be listed as 0680. Technically, the area code is 80, but there's no way to call a freephone number without the 06 part.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.133.44.194 (talk) 11:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hungary 

message: How comes Lester Wunderman isn't mentioned in this article? To some, he's the inventor of the toll-free number. And at least, he made it big.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.199.83.129 (talk) 08:22, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That article does pretty much try to claim he invented the sun, the stars and the moon but doesn't explain how he is the "inventor" of toll-free numbers and postal codes if he has no clear ties to any telephone companies or postmasters. K7L (talk) 04:26, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inventor? 

message: :Which year did the direct dial 0800 freephone numbers start being used in the UK and how many digits were in those numbers? - 91.85.46.176 (talk) 22:41, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Linkline (later "Freefone") 0800 services by British Telecom on 12 November 1985" appear to be the first direct-dial UK freephone, not sure how many digits. 66.102.87.61 (talk) 17:06, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Freephone in the United Kingdom

message: The first section, "History" need to be completely re-written as it is entirely incomprehensable. Thanks. 99.32.160.175 (talk) 16:29, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Most likely, the "History" and "Growth as a business tool" sections need to be combined, restructured, then split into some sort of timeline - starting with Zenith number and "ask the operator for freephone (whatever)", then Wide Area Telephone Service, then the modern toll-free system (so the RespOrgs, the Primetel abuses and the overlay plan numbers come last). Not sure if history in NANP vs. history in other countries should be split to different sections, it seems +1-800 is overwhelming info on freephone elsewhere. K7L (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ??? 

message: Is there a source for all of this text about all the early hotel reservation numbers on band 3 InWATS in Nebraska? The info looks plausible but a web search mostly turns up WP:CIRCULAR links to sites which cribbed the answers from Wikipedia. K7L (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm moving this entire block of text to the talk page as there is still no source for anything.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.87.61 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Res City', Omaha Nebraska