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Yes, all phone service providers are required by the FCC to provide access to a local operator by dialing 0 and to a long distance operator by dialing 00 on all of their phones.

There are also ways to access an international operator on all phone service providers, but the FCC does not regulate this so the number you must dial varies from provider to provider.

There are still (and will always be) certain services that only an operator can provide and automatic telephone exchange equipment cannot (e.g. person to person calls, collect calls, third party billing calls, interrupting a call in progress for an emergency call, testing line status, requesting a ringback to your own line)

What is "antiquated" is the days when the phone had no dial and when you picked it up you were always connected to an operator who asked "Number Please?".

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