The caller requested an application for a copy of a birth certificate by punching in a fax number.

Last year, more than 300,000 callers requested a table.

With the fax-on-demand concept, a caller could request specific sports scores, a tailored news summary or other information at specific times, and it could be sent via fax, for a fee.

The caller can request either complete or partial reversed charging.

"Please call me Aunt Rosemary," the caller requested.

Across the street from Fenway Park, a dozen callers to The Souvenir Store requested Schilling merchandise.

Negative results are usually given by a recording, although the caller can request a counselor at any time.

He said his operators asked for names and addresses only if, for example, callers requested a pamphlet.

The caller may then request the Gardaí (the Irish police), ambulance, fire brigade, coastguard, or cave and mountain rescue service.

In order to ask a question about something that happened prior to the year 1927, the caller must request to "go to the mountain".