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Preparing for a new universe of toll-free numbers.(Washington Perspective)
Business Communications Review, November, 1995 by Toth, Victor J.
The good news and the bad news about more toll-free numbers It's been clear for quite some time that we're rapidly running out of toll-free 800 numbers. Indeed, if number portability hadn't been deployed in 1993, the 800-number well would already be dry. Last spring, when the supply of unused 800 numbers dropped below 600,000, the FCC finally stepped in and ordered 800-number rationing until the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) could accommodate an alternative toll-free number block.
In anticipation of this problem, the carriers determined in January 1995 that the new toll-free number blocks should consist of the prefixes 888, 877, 866, etc, and the LECs were given about two years to upgrade their end offices to recognize the 888 toll-free prefix....
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