• Direct distance dialing (DDD) is a telecommunications service feature in North America by which a caller may, without operator assistance, call any other...
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  • Direct dialing may refer to: Direct distance dialing, where a caller may call any other user outside the local calling area without operator assistance...
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    cities in northeastern New Jersey were dialable in 1951 (and for a few years prior) from Englewood by simply dialing the two letters of the exchange name...
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  • boundaries. Before direct distance dialing (DDD), all long-distance calls were established by special switchboard operators (long-distance operators) even...
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  • Seven-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure customary in some territories of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for dialing telephone numbers...
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  • commenced a customer trial of direct distance dialing (DDD) from this single location in the country. From the customer dialing experience in the Englewood...
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    Mexico City, and Tijuana. In the early development of International Direct Distance Dialing (IDDD), Mexico elected to join World Zone 5, instead of joining...
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    comprehensive numbering plan that enabled direct-distance dialing, led to the introduction of all-number dialing in the 1960s. The use of numbers starting...
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  • exist in previous decades, especially in small towns and before direct distance dialing became universal. In the late 1990s, the 7-digit landline numbers...
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  • exchanges a long distance apart. Since all calls may be dialled direct today, the term has fallen into disuse. In subscriber trunk dialing, each designated...
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  • planning for a nationwide numbering plan for Operator Toll Dialing and direct distance dialing (DDD) in the Bell System in the United States in the 1940s...
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  • Union as well as some other European and non-European countries. Direct-distance dialing (DDD) was first introduced in areas with common-control switching...
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  • multi-frequency signaling systems came into use for international direct distance dialing (IDDD) which used the frequency of 2600Hz in line signaling in...
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    also the first area code with Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) service, when in 1951 the first direct-dialed long-distance call was made from Englewood,...
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    select pulse dialing or DTMF dialing. AIOD leads (automatic identified outward dialing) Crossbar switch Dial tone Direct distance dialing (DDD) History...
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  • code 1, which is dialed as a prefix in the international E.164 telephone numbering plan. The trunk prefix for dialing long-distance calls, across numbering...
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  • transmitting the direct-current pulses of a rotary dial. Operator Toll Dialing was gradually supplemented and superseded by Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) in the...
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    designed for use in Operator Toll Dialing, the reorganization was also a prerequisite for Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) by customers, first implemented...
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    and Bakersfield to 213. With the preparations for nation-wide direct distance dialing (DDD) in the early 1950s, area code 318 was temporarily used in...
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  • they gained public recognition with gradual implementation of Direct Distance Dialing in the 1950 and 1960s. Starting with the late 1980s, assignment...
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    direct-distance dialing, all-number calling became necessary. Similar developments followed around the world, such as the British all-figure dialling...
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    long-distance calling, by reducing manual labor by switchboard operators. Eventually, it prepared the continent for direct-dialing of long-distance calls...
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    decisions and embraced dialed automatic switching. The 1951 introduction of direct distance dialing required automatic transmission of dialed numbers between...
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    codes. With the build-out of the toll dialing system, and the beginnings of conversion for direct distance dialing by subscribers, AT&T divided the numbering...
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    customer-dialed communication in 1951, with the first trial of Direct Distance Dialing (DDD). In 1956, the administration divided the state into two numbering...
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  • signaling system that was in use from the 1970s for International Direct Distance Dialing (IDDD). Internationally it became known as CCITT5 or CC5. It was...
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    Toll Dialing. The state of Florida was a single numbering plan area with area code 305. In 1953, with the development of Direct Distance Dialing, the...
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    Hackettstown, NJ: The Hackettstown Gazette. 1961-07-06. p. 3. Nationwide Direct Distance Dialing (company guide). New Jersey Bell. 1961-03-26. p. 2. "New Jersey...
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    instead of coins. In 1958, CTB inaugurated the first long-distance automatic direct dialing system (DDD) in Latin America between the cities of São Paulo...
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    toll dialing. The state of Florida was a single numbering plan area with area code 305. In 1953, with the development of direct distance dialing, the...
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