• A vertical service code (VSC) is a sequence of digits and the signals star (*) and pound/hash (#) dialed on a telephone keypad or rotary dial to access...
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  • GSM services: Supplementary Services Vertical service code GSM USSD codes - Unstructured Supplementary Service Data: list of standard GSM codes for network...
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    conjunction with other signaling code sequences, such as vertical service codes, to invoke special telephone service features. Telephone numbers may have...
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  • *82 (category Telephone service enhanced features)
    This Vertical Service Code, *82, enables calling line identification regardless of subscriber preference, dialed to unblock withheld numbers (private...
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  • needs of users. These are called supplementary services and are commonly invoked by a Vertical service code. Examples include "Call waiting", "Call forward...
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  • Last-call return (category Telephone service enhanced features)
    facility varies with country and provider: United States and Canada: Vertical service code *69; 1169 on rotary phone/pulse dial telephones. The prompt voice...
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  • dictionary. Star 69 refers to "last-call return," the Calling Feature Vertical service code *69 keyed on a landline telephone set in order to return the call...
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  • Malicious caller identification (category Telephone service enhanced features)
    needed] is activated by the vertical service code *57 ("star fifty-seven"), and is an upcharge fee subscription service offered by telephone company...
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  • the short code; after doing so, one final message confirming the opt-out is sent. Telephones portal Abbreviated dialing Vertical service code "What is...
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  • calling a reverting calling telephone number (ringback number) or a vertical service code with a standard telephone. Upon answering the call, the exchange...
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    A QR code, short for quick-response code, is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode invented in 1994 by Masahiro Hara of the Japanese company Denso...
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  • is now reserved for vertical service codes. Outside North America, "11x" numbers are still in use, for these and other services. In most European countries...
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  • Caller ID (category Telephone service enhanced features)
    by the caller. Most service providers, however, allow the caller to block caller ID presentation through the vertical service code *67. A call placed behind...
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    initially unused by most customers but would later be used for vertical service codes and voice mail menu navigation. In 1974, when modular connectors...
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  • subscribe to the service with a participating provider. Once authorized, a user simply needs to prepend calls the vertical service code of "*272" to receive...
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  • Hang up. When the busy station becomes available, you will be signaled. redial Vertical service code from Federal Standard 1037C from MainResource.com...
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  • control Variations in sex characteristics, congenital conditions Vertical service code, a special telephone number that usually begins with the * (star)...
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  • Association) which are free from cell phones, these are actually vertical service codes. Calling an 800-number is free of charge. Calling a 400-number incurs...
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  • callers to withhold the identifying information from calls using a vertical service code that blocks the caller's ID (*67 in North America, 141 in the UK)...
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  • switching equipment. The new telephone exchange equipment offered vertical service code calling features such as call forwarding and call waiting, but often...
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  • North American Numbering Plan (NANP) generally uses the following vertical service codes to control call forwarding: The Sprint Nextel cellphone company...
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  • symbol is used to refer a reader to an endnote *, the beginning of a vertical service code in telephony *, the wildcard character in a computer terminal window...
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  • allow speed dial from a user's address book using a vertical service code may allow a short numeric code (like *75xx) to be translated to a pre-stored alphanumeric...
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  • communications networks, this is referred to as Callback or Automatic Callback. Callback Camp-on busy signal Vertical service code BT Ringback v t e...
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  • was many years before the two symbol keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as *67 in the United States and Canada to suppress caller ID...
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  • Trap and trace TWX Vertical service code Voicemail Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Western Union Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) WATS line Wireless...
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  • An online service provider (OSP) can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider...
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  • subscriber. The service may require a subscription from their telephone company. To set up priority call, the subscriber dials the vertical service code *61 and...
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    555-1212 — non-local directory information (Canada and United States) Vertical service codes are used for special calling features, such as: *51 and 1151 — a...
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  • Telephones portal Abbreviated dialing Vertical service code, consisting of an asterisk followed by a two-digit number. Short code, for sending SMS and MMS text...
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