Last Call Return, also known as Call Return, 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. While Call Return is its official name, particularly in communication companies' publications, the general public tends to refer to the service by the telephone number it has in that country; for example, in the UK it is called "1471".
The access number for this facility varies per country and provider:
In the UK, after dialing "1471", the caller can press "3" to automatically return the call. Until August 2004, this service was free; since that date it has incurred a charge, as of 10 January 2007 a per call fee of 10.5 pence is charged. It was the topic of a 2001 episode of the sitcom Coupling.
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:
Conversely, to send the caller number on a line where the number is normally withheld, the following prefixes can be dialled:
In Gibraltar, ex-directory or unlisted numbers are withheld by default.
In Canada, the feature is commonly marketed by telephone companies as a combination of two features:
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