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A 'collect call' in the USA and Canada or 'reverse charge' in the UK and other countries (or calling 'collect') is a telephone call in which the calling party wants to place a call at the called party's expense. In the past, collect calls were only possible as an operator-assisted call, but with the introduction of computer-based telephone dialing equipment, it is now possible to place a collect call without using an operator, which is called 'International Freephone Service' (IFS) as opposed to 'Home Country Direct' (HCD). Several companies offer services to place collect calls that compete with local service providers. When the operator's number is globally unique, i.e. it does not depend on the caller's country, it is called 'Universal International Freephone Number' (UIFN).
More collect calls are made on Father's Day than any other day.^[1]
Other forms of paid communication, such as telegrams, could also be sent "collect".

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