{"id":7897,"date":"2019-04-23T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teleforwarding.com\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2021-05-11T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:05:38","slug":"toll-free-numbers-emergency-hotline-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teleforwarding.com\/blog\/toll-free-numbers-emergency-hotline-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences between toll free numbers and emergency hotline numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"hotline\"All day long, commercials are calling out \u201ccall us toll free!\u201d. In case of calamities we hear \u201cyou can contact us on our emergency hotline number\u201d. The relationship between these different types of telephone numbers is confusing; an emergency hotline number can be a toll free number<\/a>, but \u00a0toll free numbers aren’t always emergency hotline numbers. Have we lost you yet?<\/figure>\r\n
The first thing to know about both types of numbers is this: They can be called at no cost to the caller.<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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What is a toll free number?<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Toll free numbers were first used in the USA in 1967 by large companies for special events with high volumes of incoming calls, to protect usual day-to-day incoming business calls.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In England, toll\u00a0free numbers<\/a> developed around the same time while other European countries such as Germany invented them only in the 1980s. Toll free numbers are also called freecall or freephone numbers and are mostly accessible via the prefix 1-800 (for example United States or Canada), 0800 (e.g. Germany or the Netherlands) or 800 (e.g. United Kingdom or Italy), although other digit combinations exist in other countries, too. Thus, 0800 numbers cost nothing for the caller.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n