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Dominik Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

From exchanges with STD facilities

What do "exchanges" and "facilities" mean here. I dont quite get the text. Can you say this in other words?

STD - Subscribers Trunk Dialing

Thanks in advance!
  

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You have just posted a prepositional phrase, no context. Or not enough context for me, at least.
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Hi,

This is a headline :
Inland call charges from ordinary lines
From exchanges with STD facilities

Dialled direct
Time allowed for 4p in any one call

Peak rate
local 2 min
up to 56 km 30 sec
over 56 10 sec

Standard rate
(...)

Cheap rate
(...)
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STD facilities means the equipment/connections to send and receive via STD.
An exchange is the group of phones or the area served represented by the first 3 digits of a phone number (555-1212).

That's my best guess here.
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DominikThis is a headline :Inland call charges from ordinary linesFrom exchanges with STD facilities
Is it the term STD you are struggling with?

In terms of telephone calls, STD stands for an old system, before being able to make direct telephone calls. The term means subscriber trunk/toll dialling and describes a t
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Mister Micawber, corfu lingua thank you for your help.
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