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PAY PHONE [9 records]

Record 1 2014-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
CONT

You do not have to pay the CRA [Canada Revenue Agency] any taxes or fees of any kind on lottery and sweepstakes winnings in Canada. Any unsolicited email, letter, or phone call telling you otherwise is a scam.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
CONT

Vous ne devez pas payer d'impôt ni de frais d'aucune sorte à l'ARC [Agence du revenu du Canada] sur les gains de loterie et de tirages au sort au Canada. Tout courriel, lettre ou appel téléphonique non sollicité vous indiquant le contraire est une manœuvre frauduleuse.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Services
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Making calls to your friends and family through your normal telephone is becoming obsolete. It is now the norm for people to talk to their friends and family with instant messaging services such as Yahoo, AOL, and MSN. Another version of using your computer to communicate is using VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) [, i. e. ] a class of hardware and software that allows people to use the Internet for making telephone calls. One of the many advantages of this type of service is no surcharge. The amount you pay for this service is included in your monthly Internet fees. AOL is coming out with a new "Total Talk VoIP" that is to replace AOL Internet Phone. The difference being that with AOL Internet Phone it was available exclusively for those who were members of AOL. With Total Talk VoIP, broadband users throughout American and Canada will enjoy the convenience offered by AOL.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services téléphoniques
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

AOL a déjà lancé un service de voix sur IP au Canada en décembre dernier, baptisé Total Talk et accessible à tous les abonnés haut débit à internet, qu'ils soient clients ou non.

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Services
DEF

A plastic or paper card that allows a person to pay for long distance/local phone calls in advance.

Key term(s)
  • pre-paid telephone card

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services téléphoniques
CONT

Une carte d'appel prépayée est habituellement achetée [...]; des frais sont déduits du compte de l'acheteur pour les appels interurbains, jusqu'à ce que la valeur du compte soit rendue à zéro.

CONT

La carte téléphonique prépayée est offerte en formats de 10 minutes, de 20 minutes, de 30 minutes et de 60 minutes.

Key term(s)
  • carte téléphonique à prépayement

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Shoulder surfers spend their time in public areas that have lots of pay phones. Airports are excellent locations for observing calling card numbers or DISA [Direct Inward System Access] phone numbers and access codes.... Shoulder surfers with stolen DISA phone numbers and codes dial into a company's PBX system and are passed through to a DISA port to an outside line where they run up thousands of dollars in long-distance calls.

OBS

See "Telecom 2000", an advertising and information supplement to the Sept. 13, 1993 edition of Maclean’s magazine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Les épieurs passent leur temps près des téléphones publics, dans les aéroports, par exemple. Ils surveillent les voyageurs et lorgnent leur numéro de carte d'appel ou leur numéro de téléphone et code d'accès DISA [accès directe au système interne]. [...] Armés des numéros de téléphone et codes d'accès DISA volés, les épieurs (ou les "clients", qui leur achètent les numéros) se servent du système particulier d'une entreprise pour faire des milliers de dollars d'appels interurbains non autorisés.

OBS

Voir «Télécom 2000», supplément publicitaire de «L'Actualité» du 1 octobre 1993.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telefonía y tecnología de microondas
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 5 2002-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephones
DEF

A connection from a pay phone within the local calling area of not less than fifteen minutes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphones

Spanish

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Record 6 2002-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology
  • Telephone Services
  • Telecommunications
DEF

A type of phone call where the person being called agrees to pay the charges.

OBS

This is also referred to as "reversing the charges". Parents are used to getting these from kids living away from home.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
  • Services téléphoniques
  • Télécommunications
DEF

Appel téléphonique où la personne qui est appelée accepte de payer les frais.

OBS

C'est ce qu'on appelle virer les frais. Les parents reçoivent souvent ce genre d'appel de la part de leurs enfants vivant à l'extérieur.

OBS

L'expression «taxation à l'arrivée» est déconseillée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telefonía y tecnología de microondas
  • Servicios telefónicos
  • Telecomunicaciones
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Record 7 2001-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Issuers of electronic cash substitutes such as smart cards hope that consumers will appreciate no longer having to dig for change for morning coffee, bus fare or a pay phone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Les émetteurs des modes électroniques de remplacement de l'argent comptant tels que les cartes intelligentes espèrent que les consommateurs apprécieront le fait de ne plus avoir à fouiller dans leurs poches pour trouver la monnaie nécessaire à l'achat d'un café, d'un passage par autobus ou d'un appel téléphonique.

Spanish

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Record 8 1996-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Workplace Organization
  • Office-Work Organization
CONT

Executive suites are very common in most U. S. cities and may include an inexpensive marketing package to help you develop a local corporate image. These suites offer economic overhead through pooled secretarial support, office space, photocopying, mail handling and telephone answering services. Telephones are answered with your firm's name and you pay a monthly rental and phone answering fee plus additional charges for specific services used or furniture rented. Costs of these services vary by region and by size of space. You are usually free to move within the building as your space needs change. You will probably find it more economical to open your own office once you have more than five staff on site.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation du travail et équipements
  • Organisation du travail de bureau

Spanish

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Record 9 1996-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Workplace Organization
  • Rental Agencies
CONT

Executive suites are very common in most U. S. cities and may include an inexpensive marketing package to help you develop a local corporate image. These suites offer economic overhead through pooled secretarial support, office space, photocopying, mail handling and telephone answering services. Telephones are answered with your firm's name and you pay a monthly rental and phone answering fee plus additional charges for specific services used or furniture rented.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation du travail et équipements
  • Entreprises de location

Spanish

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