Editing Collect call (section)

{{short description|Telephone call at the called party's expense}}
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A '''collect call''' in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]], known as a '''reverse charge call''' in other parts of the [[English-speaking world]], is a [[telephone call]] in which the [[calling party]] wants to place a call at the [[called party]]'s expense.

Collect calls were originally only possible as an [[operator assistance|operator-assisted]] call, but with the introduction of [[computer]]-based [[telephone]] dialing equipment, it became possible to place a collect call without using an [[Switchboard operator|operator]]. Automated reverse charge dialing eliminated a service that could be provided, at a higher fee, only on operator-assisted connections: the [[long-distance operator|person-to-person]] call, in which there is no charge unless a designated person is available.

In the US, while [[Mother's Day]] is the holiday with the highest number of phone calls, the day with the most collect calls is [[Father's Day]].<ref name=snopes>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/holidays/fathersday/collect.asp|title=We Love You: Call Collect|date=4 May 2006 |publisher=[[Snopes.com]]|access-date=2010-06-03}}</ref><ref name=pallavi>{{cite news |last=Gogoi |first=Pallavi |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2005-06-13/fathers-unspectacular-day |title=Father's Unspectacular Day |work=Bloomberg |date=14 June 2005 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>