GAO surveyed roughly 600 of the 3 million persons referred to SSA field offices to determine if Social Security had recontacted them. In one category, GAO found that the field office did not make contact 11 percent of the time. Two other categories revealed unsuccessful phone recontact rates of 24 and 42 percent.
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855 844 833 – The FCC has established a fast-track process to limit the availability of 800 toll-free numbers until the Public Switched Telephone Network is equipped to handle the 888, 877 and 866 numbers. According to its Docket No. 95-155, it aims to ensure fair allocation and prevent warehousing of toll-free numbers.
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Installation is $43.50 for each 800 NUMBER AND usage rates vary, AT&T said. There is also a $5 charge each time the NUMBER is reactivated. …
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When Jeremy and Geoffrey April want to stay after school to work on a class project, they inform their parents by calling the family “800” number. Peggy Fitchwell-Hill has an “800” number for a far different reason. She and her husband, Gary Hill, keep their phone nearby, hoping there will be a birth mother on the other end who wants them to adopt her baby.
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Christopher Toman is entangled in a numbers game with AT&T that he’d just as soon forget. About five years ago, Toman got the dream toll-free number for his Livermore ski repair shop: 800-FIX SKIS. The number was deemed nifty enough that it earned an award from Pacific Bell. He had the toll-free line for about five years, and Toman believes the number helped to steer business to his company, Hollywood Body Craft, which fixes jet skis. But through no fault of his own…
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The owners of a new local mortgage company have found a way to make technology work for them and against a trend in the real estate industry.
Harbortown Mortgage Co. Inc. of Punta Gorda opened its doors this spring and is preparing to roll out a marketing program built around an 800-number. The number could allow it to take the lead in finding customers, instead of relying on real estate agents to provide them. When prospective buyers call the number, which will be featured in local
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From a Main Street storefront a block or two from the stately old courthouse and across from a pawnshop, in the heart of this town where 22,500 people have their pick of some 65 churches, Randy James is reaching out to offer salvation to the nation, one toll-free call at a time. James, 73, cut his evangelical teeth alongside his father, who preached to Saturday night drunks around Waco’s town square. But the two tools of his current operation, which he calls GoTel Ministries…
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Q: I have just self-published a book and plan to sell it from my office at home by advertising in trade magazines and appearing on both radio and television talk shows. Would it be a good idea to set up an 800 telephone number for orders, or would an 800 number be cost prohibitive?
A: If more than 20 percent of your projected revenue will come from clients outside of your local calling area, installing a toll-free 800 number would be an excellent marketing strategy. Many surveys reveal that…
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That’s because the calls to Levine’s 800 number will show up on her phone bill. She’s Not sure how much the Time Warner complaints will cost her. …
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They keep her busy and the 800 number is a customer service perk the … “Having the 800 number increased our phone traffic dramatically,” Johnson said. …
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