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Transcript: FCC ADOPTS DECISION ON ASSIGNMENT OF TOLL FREE VANITY NUMBERS
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- March 31, 1998
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The Commission today issued an Order stating that vanity numbers
in the new 877 toll
free code and future toll free codes shall be assigned on
a first-
come, first-served basis
as each code is deployed. Subscribers of certain vanity numbers
in
the 800 toll free
code, however, are granted the right of first refusal for
a
limited amount of
corresponding vanity numbers in the 888 code that were set
aside
pending the
Commission's decision. The Commission said today's Order
will
further its goals of
promoting the efficient, fair, and orderly allocation of
toll free
numbers.
A vanity number is a telephone ...