Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In the North American Numbering Plan, a rate centre is a geographically-specified area used for determining mileage and/or usage dependent rates in the public switched telephone network.Unlike a wire centre (which is the actual physical telephone exchange building), a rate centre is a regulatory construct created primarily for billing purposes.Each rate centre is associated with: a geographical place name (city, province/state) a nominal physical location (V and H co-ordinates) for distance calculations for billing purposes one or more prefixes, in the form +1-NPA-NXX, which each identify a block of ten thousand directory numbers a specified local calling area, identified as a list of other individual rate centres to which local or flat-rate landline calling is providedA rate centre may contain one or multiple physical wire centres; conversely, it may merely be a legal fiction retained for billing purposes with its actual subscribers served from the same physical switch as an adjacent community.A telephone number prefix (1+6 digits) normally suffices to uniquely identify a rate centre; if number pooling and local number portability were not in use, it would also uniquely identify a wire centre.For instance, BUtterfield 8 (+1-212-288-xxxx) identifies a specific office (CLLI code NYCMNY79DS1, Verizon's building at 208 E 79th St, New York NY) as its default wire centre but identifies \"New York City, Zone 1\" as a rate centre. "@en }
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- Rate_centre comment "In the North American Numbering Plan, a rate centre is a geographically-specified area used for determining mileage and/or usage dependent rates in the public switched telephone network.Unlike a wire centre (which is the actual physical telephone exchange building), a rate centre is a regulatory construct created primarily for billing purposes.Each rate centre is associated with: a geographical place name (city, province/state) a nominal physical location (V and H co-ordinates) for distance calculations for billing purposes one or more prefixes, in the form +1-NPA-NXX, which each identify a block of ten thousand directory numbers a specified local calling area, identified as a list of other individual rate centres to which local or flat-rate landline calling is providedA rate centre may contain one or multiple physical wire centres; conversely, it may merely be a legal fiction retained for billing purposes with its actual subscribers served from the same physical switch as an adjacent community.A telephone number prefix (1+6 digits) normally suffices to uniquely identify a rate centre; if number pooling and local number portability were not in use, it would also uniquely identify a wire centre.For instance, BUtterfield 8 (+1-212-288-xxxx) identifies a specific office (CLLI code NYCMNY79DS1, Verizon's building at 208 E 79th St, New York NY) as its default wire centre but identifies \"New York City, Zone 1\" as a rate centre. ".