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Some people might be wondering when these free toll numbers first got introduced to the public. This question is actually a really common one because people want to know more about the history of toll free numbers. Well, you should know that these numbers are actually the ‘product’ of the United Kingdom. They were first used in the year 1960 by the British Post Office. They wanted the people to be able to call them if they had certain problems or if they wanted to know more about the services of the Post Office.
In the United States this service was first introduce in the year 1963 by the phone company AT&T. After AT&T introduced these number to the American public there were a lot of big companies that started using these numbers. Most of them were the big hotels that wanted people to be able to get informed about their services a lot faster and easier. There were also car rental companies that started using the 800 numbers and even some inn’s and hostels started using them. There are many people who ask this question: how did the 1-800 numbers evolve? This question is a really fun one to answer! You see, as more and more companies and organizations started using these toll free numbers to inform people about all sorts of things, these companies and organization had a lot of work to do. So in order to change this, there was a really big modification. You could call the number 1-800 followed by the word of the thing that you wanted to learn about. You could type in 1-800-CARS for example and you could get specific information about some types of cars. There were special companies that were dealing with these calls so that people could get the bet response as possible! You could get information about flowers, cars and many other things by calling 1-800 and adding the word that you wanted to learn more about. |