A handful of companies suck up virtually all the good numbers within seconds
A good number is extremely valuable and there are several people or companies that suck up even mediocre numbers either because they want to resell or rent them out to people or even just to make money from the wrong numbers. I am putting together some more information on the phone sharks and how they’re sucking up the entire toll free industry, but they are very deeply entrenched and highly successful at it. They have simply raised the bar to the point where a regular customer simply has no chance at all of getting a good number in the normal process. Part of that is because the big phone companies are asleep and also because of the technical advantage these sharks have developed. They have enormous systems in place to request literally thousands of numbers per night, within seconds.
To get an idea of how fast the biggest “sharks” are at getting numbers, try a few searches and see if you see any of these names:Primetel – a phone sex business I call the Black Hole because they suck up everything in the world and nothing ever comes back out. To say they get most of the numbers coming out of disconnect is an understatement. To say that they get more numbers out of disconnect than everyone else put together doesn’t even tell the half of it. When you eliminate numbers that don’t spell anything they get 90+% of all “800″ numbers coming out of disconnect!
Rolinium – a company that uses shared use as an excuse to hoard numbers (just my opinion) and then pretends that they’re used somewhere so they don’t have to give you the end user rights and can rent them to you charging you huge monthly fees and way overpriced per minute fees forever. They used to get more than they do now.
Signal One – another company that has recently been sucking up as many as 100,000 numbers per month (mostly 888 & 877s) to make money playing a message telling callers to call their over priced 1010 directory assistance service.
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Thanks for the help bill. You really took the tim to help us and it's has been a pleasure! 
Phil says:
June 4, 2010 at 10:46 am
Isn’t this illegal?
Bill Quimby (678 comments.) says:
June 4, 2010 at 4:16 pm
It’s not so black and white as you’re assuming. You have to seperate the concept of what’s legal from what’s right or appropriate.
There are cases where sharing a good number is valuable thing. But like anything it can be twisted and used to turn into something bad.
Bill
Jacqueline says:
October 30, 2010 at 8:44 pm
So, what does it mean if I gets a call from Rolinium.. a very abrasive call saying to contact him immediately. He said his associates had been trying to reach me and has had no response. I haven’t gotten ANY previous calls. What does this company do?