We’re Watching You

Is the government watching you and listening to your calls? If so, why? Who are you and why make you a target. The answer is here and clear!

Toll Free 866 Popularity

866 numbers are the newest toll free numbers, released by the Federal Communications Commission in 2000 to address the shortage of 800, 888, and 877 numbers. Once consumers began to recognize the 866 pre-fix as toll free, the value of 866 soared. Recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 consumers recognize 866 as a toll free number. The 866 numbers are more popular then ever before, increasing in demand every day. When the 855 toll free numbers are released they are said to be even more popular since they won’t be the newest anymore. Get all the details here.

Take The Toll Free Challenge

Toll Free numbers have numerous advantages for both personal and business use. It’s true when high powered advertising executives say that you “cannot afford NOT to have a toll free number.”

1. Toll Frees are cheaper than a calling card.
2. Toll Frees can be called from anywhere in North America.
3. Toll Free numbers pay themselves off in the first month you have one (making it a MAJOR asset).

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The Disappearing Act

Why are toll free numbers disappearing? This isn’t going over well with business owners especially since the delay of the newest 855 toll free area code’s coming out.

Learn more about this here.

Can Anyone Use a Toll Free

Many people wonder who can use a toll free. Does it have to be a business or can anyone use a toll free?

Get more info on personal use toll frees here.

The Toll Free Industry

Industry Compliance

One Purpose of the Tollfree Advisory Committee (TAC) is to assist in arbitrating disputes between subscribers/Responsible Organizations/the Government/and end users of telephone and communications services.
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Damage Prevention Act

There had been a lot of buzz on Missouri house bill 1779. It has a lot to do with public and private property and the people who are on the land and own the land.
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What Price Will YOU Pay?

Business owners have rapidly started up new 800 number accounts because prices have been rapidly increasing and availability has gone down. It’s a tough situation but people in the know are aware that “now” is the time!
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FCC Warns, Tricky Language Can Land You in an Illegal Deal

Following the emergence of a black market for valuable toll free numbers, including catchy vanity numbers, sources say federal authorities are cracking down on the illegal sales of 800 numbers.

Insiders say to avoid being caught in an undercover investigation and facing hefty fines from the Federal Communications Commission, anyone interested in obtaining an 800 number should deal with reputable service providers such as Qwest, or AT&T.

Read more here.

Laws Directed at Cell Companies

Call identifying information. Call identifying information means dialing or signaling information that identifies the origin, direction, destination, or termination of each communication generated or received by a subscriber by means of any equipment, facility, or service of a telecommunications carrier. Call identifying information is “reasonably available” to a carrier if it is present at an intercept access point and can be made available without the carrier being unduly burdened with network modifications. Keep reading more, here.