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Toll-free numbers start with 800 followed by 7 digits while premium-rate numbers start with 900 followed by 7 digits. Before 1994, all phone numbers in Costa Rica were six digits long. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad , which at that time had the monopoly on telecommunications, introduced a system in which the telephone numbers in ...
The dialing of 1 or 0 instead of I or O in phonewords can lead to misdialed calls; one such typosquatting incident targeted 1-800-HOLIDAY (+1-800-465-4329, the toll-free direct reservations line for Holiday Inn) by subscribing 1-800-H0LIDAY (+1-800-405-4329, the same number with 'o' replaced by 'zero') to a rival vendor which stood to collect a ...
The letters have also been used, mainly in the United States, as a technique for remembering telephone numbers easily. For example, an interior decorator might license the telephone number 1-800-724-6837, but advertise it as the more memorable phoneword "1-800-PAINTER". Sometimes businesses advertise a number with a mnemonic word having more ...
When the New York City Subway began operation between 1904 and 1908, one of the main service patterns was the West Side Branch, which the modern 1 train uses. Trains ran from Lower Manhattan to the 242nd Street station near Van Cortlandt Park, using what is now the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, 42nd Street Shuttle, and IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
Telephone numbers in Cyprus follow a closed telephone numbering plan which was adopted on 1 December 2001. [1] As a result, for landline phone numbers the digit 2 followed by the old area code was affixed to the subscriber number and for mobile phones 9 was affixed to the phone number. The plan is also used in Akrotiri and Dhekelia. [2]
"Walk Like an Egyptian" logged two weeks at number-one in 1986 and two more weeks at number-one in 1987, summing up to four weeks at the top. "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie concluded another four week run that began in 1985. 1986 is the year with the third largest number of number-one songs, with 30 songs reaching the #1 spot.
The Italian enclave San Marino has its own country code 378, but landline numbers can be reached using the Italian country code as well: the prefix "0549" is assigned to San Marino. Dialing either "+378 xxxxxx" or "+39 0549 xxxxxx" will reach the same number. Mobile phone customers are sometimes assigned Italian phone numbers.
Contract number Details Unit number Manufacturer Year manufactured Status R69: Prototype air conditioning for 8 B-Division passenger cars: Never purchased: R70: Ballast cars: Never purchased: R71 35 rider cars, 6 de-icer cars, 3 hose cars, 6 reach cars (passenger car conversions) RD321–RD361 (rider, hose, and de-icer cars) MTA (in-house)