Where do all the ’800′ numbers go?
The Fake sms website constantly writes articles every other day or so, about the supposed shortage of toll free numbers. There’s actually no shortage of toll free numbers, the only shortage is of ’8-0-0′ numbers. According to the real SMS on Saturday 8/22 there were exactly 5,850,736 numbers in the spare pool which at average usage rates will last 8 to 10 years or more.
The only person writing over and over again about a so called shortage, is Marshall Logan. He’s the owner of smsgov.com and tollfreenumber.org and he’s writing hundreds of articles about this so called toll free shortage, in order to scare people into buying more numbers. Somehow he manages to write article after article without ever mentioning the actual statistics or numbers of toll free numbers left.
Marshall Logan also ignores the reasons why toll free numbers are taken up so much faster than ever before. In my opinion there are two main reasons why ’800′ numbers get taken so fast today, that regular customers never even have a chance to get good numbers. Thanks both to the big Mass Misdial Marketers and services like More Calls Media, toll free wrong numbers with wrong numbers have literally been turned into free advertising. The biggest Mass misdial marketers are actually becoming the largest phone companies in the country in terms of toll free numbers that they control, passing even AT&T and Verizon.
The other reason good numbers get taken so fast is that “shared use” companies have turned into excuses to hoard and collect numbers without having to have any actual customers. Regular phone companies have to wait for a customer to request a specific number and then go try to get it. Shared use companies don’t have to wait for an actual customer to request a number, they just take them and hope that a customer will eventually show up.
Greg Fernandez for example started a “shared use” company and has practically no customers yet is taking hundreds of numbers. He wants every good number and thinks that his intention to use them for shared use allows him to be both the phone company and the owner at the same time. He’s essentially the example of how not to do shared use and the definition of “hoarding”.
The FCC has been cracking down on things lately and will almost certainly have to do something about both mass misdial marketing and shared use companies before any new numbers can be issued, or the problem is going to be multiplied. Because if they open up a pool of new numbers regular phone companies are going to be waiting for customers to contact them and request numbers while the misdial and shared use companies have literally hundreds of logins just to grab numbers when they come out are going to be sucking them up at light speed. The day after a new area code is released at least 30% or more of them may be gone and unavailable to end users.
So the problem isn’t actually that there’s a shortage. We just need to redefine shared use and misdial marketing as hoarding. The misdial and shared use companies take all of the good numbers before regular phone companies or regular end users even have a chance.
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