Legal Issues transferring 800 numbers

There are a couple legal issues related to toll free numbers.  There’s nothing that says it’s illegal to transfer a number, but there are regulations against hoarding and brokering.  The FCC regulations against hoarding and brokering are designed to prevent the type of squatter industry that developed in the domain name world.  Essentially you’re not allowed to be a “car dealer” in the toll free business.  But buying or selling your individual car does NOT make you a car dealer.  None of the regulations are geared toward casual users and there are no phone police.  There is more about this but I’ve put this in separate pages because it’s not necessary even for most advanced users to of to deep into this.

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    Key says:
    December 9, 2008 at 11:34 am

    I have got 4 terrific 888 numbers through you. What if someone is interested in acquiring these numbers from me? Can I claim more than I paid for each number?

      Bill Quimby (678 comments.) says:
      December 9, 2008 at 1:22 pm

      What you do with a number after you get it is your business. As long as you’re not getting numbers for the purpose of reselling them, you are fine with us.

      We’re not promoting the sale of numbers or setting people up as little resellers. But I don’t think anyone would seriously expect you to give up something unless it was a benefit to you.

      Bill

        Richard says:
        March 31, 2011 at 3:54 pm

        Hi Bill:

        Thanks for the significant amount of useful information on your site, it’s very helpful! I have a quick question: our company is purchasing some of the assets of a competitor and one of these assets is their toll-free 1-866 vanity number. How is such a transfer accomplished- do we just need the seller to contact his provider and notify them than he would like to transfer # to us (right now, no plans to switch from his current provider)? If so, how long should we expect such a transfer to take?

        Richard

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