4-1-1
North American local directory assistance number / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the telephone directory number. For other uses, see 411 (disambiguation).
4-1-1 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 4-1-1 — and the related 1-1-3 number — were free to call in most jurisdictions.
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In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information",[1] although its official name is "directory assistance".[2]