The parish had to set up a local call center to handle requests for FEMA checks.
You can call the capital, 1, 500 km away, for the cost of a local call.
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It only takes a local call to get onto the internet, of course.
As a result, calls are charged at a much cheaper rate: long-distance and international calls can be made for the price of a local call and a home broadband-internet connection.
In Singapore, consumers have historically had to pay up to .085 cents a minute for local telephone calls - Starhub gets a cut of that revenue for every minute its customers spend connected to the Web, since they must get there by placing a local call.
The tricksters then permanently divert the number to a local rate call and scoop up the difference between the premium rate and the local call.
And Internet messages travel round the world for no more than the price of a local telephone call.
The technology can scale easily as patients can do the tests themselves in minutes and are as cheap as making a local phone call.
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"Patients should complain to their practice if they are concerned calls to their GP practice are costing more than a local rate call, " he said.
People in Scotland pay the price of a local phone call when calling the advice service from a landline, with calls from a mobile often costing more.
Until a year ago, most European web surfers had to pay twice for their internet access - a fee to their ISP and the cost of a local telephone call each time they logged on.
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The court heard computer records showed searches made that evening on the NHS Direct website for "a three-year-old hurting head and being sick", and a telephone call to a local surgery that was closed.
He is the leader of a local rock band call Dusty and the RoboDrum.
In 1986 he received a phone call from the local Leicestershire Constabulary, with a special request.
We can't guarantee success, but it can't hurt to give your local shop a call.
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Mutharika's commanding lead earlier in the counting process prompted his predecessor-turned-rival Bakili Muluzi to congratulate him in a phone call, local media reported.
They made money by teaming up with telecom providers and earning a share of the local call charges that users still had to pay.
International calls have become cheaper, but the cost of a three-minute local call ballooned by an average of over 25% every year in 1997-2003.
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Emergency situations warrant a call to local law enforcement.
Over the past two days, the whole Kabylie region has ground to a halt following a call for a general strike by local leaders.
As the story goes, the owner found the vehicle emitting smoke after returning from a grocery run, prompting a call to Fisker and then the local fire department, which arrived as it was already engulfed in flames.
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This is a hard one to call, since it's a local derby where anything can happen.
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An ambulance crew based 21 minutes away in Grantown-on-Spey responded to the call because a local ambulance technician was on a meal break.
Initial reports suggested the woman told police she asked for a wake-up call at 04:00 local time and was offered a massage by the hotel owner when he knocked on her door.
It is generally better when a call for help is local, not long distance.
The judges' opinion also said the government had a right to call in the local authority's original decision to shut the schools.
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He said the cinema had received a call at 10:00 local time to cancel the film.
Fifteen years ago, he was also singing with a local opera company when he got a call to substitute for a singer at the Sydney Opera House.
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