Technologie i telekomunikacja · 12.10.1995

Toll Free Service Access Codes

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeks comment on how toll free numbers should be reserved, assigned, and used. Specifically, it proposes to take steps to promote the efficient use of toll free numbers; foster the fair and equitable reservation and distribution of toll free numbers; smooth the introduction of new toll free codes as numbers within operational codes are consumed; guard against warehousing of toll free numbers; and determine how toll free vanity numbers should be treated. The recent experience with 800 toll free numbers leads the Commission to believe that it is necessary to initiate a rulemaking proceeding through which the Commission seeks to assure that, in the future, toll free numbers are allocated on a fair, equitable, and orderly basis. The Commission also seeks to assure that the transition period during which the numbers in one toll free code are approaching full consumption and another code is being introduced is smooth, without disruption of service to existing customers or interruption in the availability of toll free numbers for new customers.