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Area code 808 Area code 808 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Hawaiian Islands, comprising the windward and the leeward islands. The code was assigned to Hawaii on August 8, 1957, about two years before statehood on Au ...

Shared-cost service is an intermediate level of telephone call billing where the charge for calling a particular international or long-distance

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is partially, but not entirely, paid for by the recipient.

Domestic

Shared cost numbers normally enable non-geographical or long-distance calls that are priced to the caller as if they were local. The difference is paid by the called party.

International

International shared-cost service is known as ISCS or UISCN (Universal International Shared Cost Number). The service has been allocated

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+808. As of 2013, the numbers are only available to

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. An ISCS number would allow the calling individual to make a call which terminates in another country, but pay only the maximum rate for calls within their country (the national rate, which is not defined in all countries). The portion of the total call charges in excess of the caller's national rate are billed to the recipient.

External links

ITU ISCS page
Telephone numbers