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. \"New York City, Zone 1\" includes multiple competing telephone companies operating various wire centres (for land line, voice over IP and mobile phone service) at multiple central offices across all of Manhattan's 212. These facilities are in multiple locations throughout the borough."@en }
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- Rate_centre abstract "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. \"New York City, Zone 1\" includes multiple competing telephone companies operating various wire centres (for land line, voice over IP and mobile phone service) at multiple central offices across all of Manhattan's 212. These facilities are in multiple locations throughout the borough.".