Translation of "Long distance charge card " (English → French) :

long-distance charge [ trunk call charge | toll call charge ]

long distance credit card

The regulations governing long distance charges, which date back to 1980 and are stringently enforced by the CRTC, state that the volume of calls placed between two centres must reach a certain level before long-distance charges can be abolished.

In these communities, in order for them to use the Internet, they have to call long distance to Iqaluit and pay that long distance charge in order to get onto a server.

(13) ‘long-distance communications’ means voice or messages services terminating outside the local exchange and regional charging areas as identified by a geographic area code in the national numbering plan;

16. Notes that the legislative framework set out in Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts - Statement by the Council and the Parliament re Article 6(1) - Statement by the Commission re Article 3(1) first indent already provides consumers purchasing at a distance with rights to a refund in the event of non-authorised transactions or non-delivery of the goods/services purchased; calls on the Commission to assess how successful this framework has been in building consumer confidence in e-commerce, how existing mechanisms ( ...[+++]including charge-back between card-issuer and merchant) are operating and how refund mechanisms (with legislative or non-legislative backing) should be incorporated into future on-line payment systems, bearing in mind that credit or charge cards may not be the predominant medium; notes the importance of encouraging measures to tackle fraud including the development of new authentication and identification techniques; further calls on the Commission to bring forward proposals to ensure a single area for payment cards and to continue to promote the measures needed to facilitate the cross-border use of electronic money;