It's simply dialling any number out of your local area. In the past, if we wanted to call long distance, we had to use an operator to connect the call. Improvements in technology removed the need for operator assistance, and gave us the ability to dial direct.
Direct outward dialing is called DOD, or Direct Distance Dialing (DDD)
Direct inward dialing is known as DID
Direct inward dialing is known as DID
Direct-dialing of long-distance calls began on November 10, 1951, with customers in Teaneck and Englewood, New Jersey, able to direct-dial 11 cities in the United States.
Direct-dialed long distance started in the United States in 1951, in the UK in 1958, and in India in 1960.
The Telephone related acronym DDD stands for Direct Distance Dialing
The international and local area dialing codes would all be the same, but your long distance company of choice would have to provide you with their direct or operator assisted dialing protocols.
Direct dialing just means that you dial the number yourself, without asking an operator to dial it for you.
Centrex features allowed direct inward dialing (DID) to a telephone number and direct outward dialing (DOD) from a number without operator intervention
The first direct-dialed long distance calls in the United States were in 1951. However, in the early days, the dialing procedure varied from place to place. Indeed, in many places, even until the early 1990's, you could dial a long distance call just by dialing the area code and number, without the '1' prefix.
International direct dialing was phased in, beginning in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
Subscriber toll dialing, or subscriber trunk dialing, simply means that the customer can dial a long distance call without going through the operator.