800 Number
An 800 number is a phone service that privides a phone number that starts with 800 or 866 or 888 and provices free long distance phone calls for customers to call the owner of the 800 number. Businesses discovered that if many customers had to pay for long distance calls that they would not do it and would use local companies. When companies starting using 800 numbers the local companies started to lose business, so they too started getting 800 numbers. At this point it doesn't matter where the company is that you are calling. Toll-free or "one-eight-hundred" (1-800) numbers is a great service which can be offered by small businesses to their customers in order to capitalize on the response a 1-800 number can bring.
