Last Call Return (in North America) or Call Return (in the United Kingdom and Australia) is a telephone feature code offered by telephone service providers to give a called party the time and telephone number of the last received call, and may also offer the facility to place a call back to the calling party. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... A vertical service code or VSC is a special telephone number that usually begins with the * (star) key on the touch tone keypad. ... The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. ... The person who (or device that) answers a telephone is the called party. ... A telephone number is a string of decimal digits that uniquely indicates the network termination point. ... A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the calling party and the called party. ... The person who (or device that) initiates a telephone call over the public switched telephone network is the calling party. ...

The access number for this facility varies per country and provider:

• Canada and US: star code *69 ('*66 in some markets); 1169 or 1166 on a rotary or pulse dial telephone, respectively.
• UK: 1471 (also used in Gibraltar and Ireland)
• Australia: *10#

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The service provider may also offer a facility through which the calling party can prevent their number being revealed to the called party, either permanently or on a per-call basis. This is achieved by prefixing the dialed number with:

• UK: 141
• US: *67
• Australia: 1831

Conversely, to send the caller number on a line where the number is normally withheld, the following prefixes can be dialled:

• UK: 1470 (also used in Gibraltar)
• Ireland: 142
• US: *82

In Ireland and Gibraltar, ex-directory or unlisted numbers are withheld by default.

Many companies withhold their direct-line numbers when calling out, or mask them with a generic switchboard number, and in many government agencies it is a disciplinary offence to make a direct-line number available in this way. An agency is a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function, such as a customs agency or a space agency. ...

In some markets, early on, the command simply connected the person employing it directly to the party, without any interceding information.