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Operator assistance

Operator assistance refers to service provided by a telephone operator to the calling party of a telephone call. This included telephone calls made from pay phones, calls placed station-to-station, person-to-person, or collect, third-number calls, calls billed to credit cards, and certain international calls which could not be dialed directly.

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Operator assistance

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples29
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

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Operator assistance

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related to Overseas · 13
Operator assistance → Before, Denver, Direct Distance Dialing, International, International Switching Centers, ISCs, Jacksonville, Montreal, New York, Oakland, Pittsburgh, The Bell System, White Plains
related to Automation · 8
Operator assistance → Beginning, DDD, Direct Distance Dialing, Operator Services Position System, OSPS, These, Traffic Service Position System, TSPS

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Traffic Service Position Systeminstance ofpremium for the first three minutes.Operator-assisted calls were initially handled at telephone switchboards which were subsequently replaced with computer assisted systems0.80text
smaller townsinstance ofIn areas with minimal telephone service0.80text
the Traffic Service Position Systeminstance ofBeginning in the late 1960s automated services0.80text
the Automated Coin Toll System began to assist with much of this work.Collect / Reverse ChargeA collect call was any call type where the called partyinstance ofBeginning in the late 1960s automated services0.80text
collect or station-paid.Coin PaidCoin Paid referred to calls made from a coin-operated telephone where all charges were paid using deposited coinsinstance ofand instead to suggest alternative billing arrangements0.80text
TSPSinstance ofgenerated by each deposited coin or monitor displayed amounts on systems0.80text
collect or station-paidinstance ofand instead to suggest alternative billing arrangements0.80text
Direct Distance Dialinginstance ofoperator assistance functions were progressively automated through systems0.80text
Operator assistancerelated to AutomationBeginning0.60section
Operator assistancerelated to AutomationDirect Distance Dialing0.60section
Operator assistancerelated to AutomationDDD0.60section
Operator assistancerelated to AutomationTraffic Service Position System0.60section

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