[3][4] However, in the case of prepaid phones, this service is accessible only when a caller has sufficient credit to call 12550.
Homelink consisted of an 1800 number and PIN that could only be linked to the user's home phone service.
All local reverse calls must be started by dialing 9090 and the desired phone number.
December 2020, Deutsche Telekom discontinued the option to make collect calls.
In early 2019 a private tech company launched services to enable a person to make an overseas reverse charge call.
[9] AT&T also provides a number to make collect calls from India to the United States.
The recipient could then choose to accept the charges for the call by pressing 1 on the dial pad.
Eircom offered national and international reverse charge calling services until 24 February 2009.
The movie Dr. Strangelove contains a scene in which a character attempts to place a collect call to the President of the United States after finding he does not have enough change on hand for the payphone.
In the 1960's movie Ocean's 11, Roger Corneal (Henry Silva) is asked to "reverse a call" after he asks a shopkeeper to make a long-distance call to check on Tony Bergdorf (Richard Conte) in order to recruit him for the heist.