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Article: Database of Available Toll Free Phone Numbers Running Dangerously Low, According to Tollfree Advisory Committee.
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- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- March 18, 2009
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In recent months, members of the Tollfree Advisory Committee at SMSGOV.com have been repeatedly warning of the decline of available toll free phone numbers. And, now, fears that the database is running dangerously low has industry experts scrambling to find a solution and encourage the FCC to release reserved toll free area codes.
The addition of the reserved 855 and 844 area codes would bolster the depleted stock of toll free numbers and ease the burden within the industry. New area codes released in the 1990s temporarily fortified the existing toll free stock, allowing millions of businesses to secure profitable 1-800 numbers.
But with the FCC keeping ...