TIL MCI owned 1-800-COLLECT for collect calls. A&T launched 1-800-OPERATOR to compete. People would misspell operator as "operater", which would be routed to 1-800-COLLECT. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by lazarus870 t3_z517qh on November 26, 2022 at 7:20 AM in todayilearned 11 comments 89
Uranus_Hz t1_ixu2ud6 wrote on November 26, 2022 at 10:23 AM Also, the final “r” doesn’t matter. Permalink 1
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