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Previous owners. Telecom USA. Tagline. "Save a Buck or Two" (1990s) 1-800-COLLECT (1-800-265-5328) is a 1-800 number, owned and operated by WiMacTel, which provides fixed rate collect calling in the United States. The service was launched by MCI in 1993.
1-800-COLLECT remains operational. Prior to the introduction of the toll-free 800 area code in 1967, a Zenith number (in the U.S. and Canada) or an enterprise number (in the U.S. only) would indicate to an operator that the business agreed to automatically accept collect calls to that number.
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All of my credit cards have a phone number to call collect, but I don't actually know how to make a collect call with a cell phone. Does anyone know the best way to do this? I messaged T-mobile and the agent says the phone will know it's a collect call and tell me the charges. He also says the charges are different than the usual 20 cents a minute.
The back of my credit card states: 24 HR Cardmember Service 800-556-3424. Outside the U.S.: 701-461-1556 Collect. According to Wiki: A collect call in Canada and the United States, known as a reverse charge call in other parts of the English-speaking world, is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called party's expense.
However, you can’t call a USA 800 number from a hotel landline phone in France. This’s why on the back of a credit card two numbers usually appear: an 800 number to call when in the USA and a non-800 “collect” number to call when out of the USA. However, a collect call is ONLY relevant when calling from a LANDLINE phone.
A Latino version featured the variant number 10-10-123 with the slogan "Diez Diez Uno Dos Tres". This ubiquitous presence on television led to a spill-over into pop culture for a brief time, much like MCI's fellow collect-call service 1-800-COLLECT during this era. Each service advertised rates that were significantly lower than most telephone ...
In essence they(800) work the same as “collect calls” but without human operator, major modernization at that time. A funny side story, once I was on a business trip in Alabama, I saw a TV commercial in hotel room selling bibles, but with our nationwide 800 number, exclusively our 800 number.