Automatic Message Accounting

Automatic Message Accounting (AMA) provides detail billing for telephone calls. When Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) was introduced in the USA, message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. The need to record the time and phone number of each long distance call was met by electromechanical data processing equipment.
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A service feature that automatically records data regarding user-dialed calls. (188 )