Be Careful With Your Toll Free

Many toll free companies are offering cheap toll free service. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is! The main problem with really cheap service is that the quality is extremely low because of VoIP usage. VoIP is cheap to run but comes with a lot of drawbacks, especially when using it to service your toll free number. If you do a little bit of searching you can always find comparable rates with beautifully established service on a top carrier.

VoIP can still be debilitating – read more here.

Still Waiting on the 855’s

Widespread concerns about the dwindling supply of toll free numbers may not be addressed anytime soon. According to sources at the 800 Service Management System (SMS/800) the reserved 855 pre-fix, intended to restore stocks of toll free numbers, may not be released by the Federal Communications Commission for several years. In fact, industry insiders say the release of 855 may be put off until 2011.

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800 Brokers and You

As with any commodity in high demand, a black market for toll free numbers has emerged in the United States, sending regulators scrambling to control the illegal sales of valuable 800 numbers. Get more on this phenomenon here.

Beware of Toll Free Hoarders

To overcome severe shortages of available 800, 888, 877, and 866 numbers, hoarding of these cherished phone numbers by toll free providers, and also by individual subscribers, has emerged into an unwelcome black market.
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800’s Are Not Expensive

Toll free phone service has become an affordable and reliable option that offers customers countless features and price points to meet their individual needs.

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Secure Your Toll Free

Fiber optics is considered secure. It is difficult, if not impossible, to detect motion through the fibers. This reduces concerns over phone calls being improperly monitored. Read more on this security issue here.

VoIP: Friend or Foe?

VoIP converts voices into digital signals that travel over the Internet. However, it has become difficult to perfect these systems and missed connections and interrupted service are a common problem.Read more here.

Fiber Optic Security

Communications over fiber optic systems are more difficult to tap and monitor. With fiber optic technology, picking up on transmissions can be more difficult.

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Fiber Optics Gaining Steam?

Fiber optics used for telecommunications is considered far more reliable than VoIP, particularly for long distance calls, because it allows for longer intervals of signal transmission without interruptions. Fiber optics provides a quality connection that ensures clarity in every call. With this technology, optical fibers are used instead of metal, reducing lost connections from electromagnetic interference.

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Get In Line, Wireline

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.

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