Yo-yo numbers

If you don’t pay your phone bill to the phone company providing the service on your toll free number, they will at some point have to disconnect the toll free number.  Sprint in particular seems to do this if you’re only one day late.  And just to make it worse, they’re the only Resporg that we’re aware of that actually disconnects numbers all the way into the national SMS800 database too. 

I guess they think the threat of actually giving away your toll free number is stronger than just shutting it down so they’ll get paid faster.  (That’s Sprint customer service for you!)  Unfortunately this disconnecting and reconnecting process tends to create what we’ve named Yo-Yo numbers, not to mention this is how Sprint loses numbers on you too.

Yo-Yo numbers will tease you because they get disconnected repeatedly but also get reconnected, often within a few days or weeks and they don’t usually make it all the way through the disconnect process.  We’ve programmed our system to label them as Yo-Yo numbers when they get disconnected to try and keep customers from getting their hopes up inappropriately. 

If you use Sprint, you should really try to check your number monthly if possible and be sure to reconnect it if they disconnect it because it’s easy to forget that and lose your number from this.

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    Bill Quimby (510 comments.) says:
    November 26, 2007 at 11:49 am

    Here’s a good example of a Yoyo number.

    http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/images/ebay/hist-800-987-LOAN.gif

    It was one of the numbers we put up the history for in an article about numbers being listed on ebay.

      Bill Quimby (510 comments.) says:
      December 13, 2008 at 9:12 pm

      Here’s an example of a YoYo number!

      This is the Resporg History for 1-800 OUR HOME!

      Change Date   Status   Status Change Date   RespOrg  
      12/12/2008 08:47:41  WORKING  12/12/2008 08:47:41  SPBS1 
      12/12/2008 08:47:37  SUSPEND  12/12/2008 08:47:37  SPBS1 
      11/22/2008 15:35:51  DISCONN  11/22/2008 15:35:51  SPBS1 
      07/31/2008 10:35:19  WORKING  07/31/2008 10:35:19  SPBS1 
      07/31/2008 10:35:17  SUSPEND  07/31/2008 10:35:17  SPBS1 
      07/22/2008 20:11:33  DISCONN  07/22/2008 20:11:33  SPBS1 
      01/14/2008 15:09:15  WORKING  01/14/2008 15:09:15  SPBS1 
      01/14/2008 15:09:11  SUSPEND  01/14/2008 15:09:11  SPBS1 
      12/22/2007 15:30:34  DISCONN  12/22/2007 15:30:34  SPBS1 
      08/22/2007 09:41:42  WORKING  08/22/2007 09:41:42  SPBS1 
      08/22/2007 09:41:38  SUSPEND  08/22/2007 09:41:38  SPBS1 
      08/14/2007 20:21:17  DISCONN  08/14/2007 20:21:17  SPBS1 
      03/19/2007 08:17:30  WORKING  03/19/2007 08:17:30  SPBS1 
      03/19/2007 08:17:25  SUSPEND  03/19/2007 08:17:25  SPBS1 
      03/12/2007 20:21:46  DISCONN  03/12/2007 20:21:46  SPBS1 
      11/08/2006 09:27:05  WORKING  11/08/2006 09:27:05  SPBS1 
      11/08/2006 09:27:00  SUSPEND  11/08/2006 09:27:00  SPBS1 
      10/28/2006 16:01:36  DISCONN  10/28/2006 16:01:36  SPBS1 
      08/28/2006 20:30:46  WORKING  08/28/2006 20:30:46  SPBS1 
      08/28/2006 20:30:41  SUSPEND  08/28/2006 20:30:41  SPBS1 
      08/22/2006 20:44:08  DISCONN  08/22/2006 20:44:08  SPBS1 
      06/01/2006 12:25:32  WORKING  06/01/2006 12:25:32  SPBS1 
      06/01/2006 12:25:29  SUSPEND  06/01/2006 12:25:29  SPBS1 
      05/22/2006 20:37:49  DISCONN  05/22/2006 20:37:49  SPBS1 
      02/13/2006 15:24:12  WORKING  02/13/2006 15:24:12  SPBS1 
      02/13/2006 15:24:08  SUSPEND  02/13/2006 15:24:08  SPBS1 
      01/22/2006 19:04:52  DISCONN  01/22/2006 19:04:52  SPBS1 
      11/07/2005 14:13:33  WORKING  11/07/2005 14:13:33  SPBS1 
      11/07/2005 14:13:30  SUSPEND  11/07/2005 14:13:30  SPBS1 
      10/29/2005 16:19:32  DISCONN  10/29/2005 16:19:32  SPBS1 
      08/08/2005 10:18:26  WORKING  08/08/2005 10:18:26  SPBS1 
      08/08/2005 10:18:18  SUSPEND  08/08/2005 10:18:18  SPBS1 
      07/22/2005 22:13:13  DISCONN  07/22/2005 22:13:13  SPBS1 
      05/10/2004 12:33:50  WORKING  05/10/2004 12:33:50  SPBS1 
      05/10/2004 12:33:47  SUSPEND  05/10/2004 12:33:47  SPBS1 
      04/28/2004 12:03:37  DISCONN  04/28/2004 12:03:37  SPBS1 
      02/17/2004 14:14:59  WORKING  02/17/2004 14:14:59  SPBS1 
      02/17/2004 14:14:56  SUSPEND  02/17/2004 14:14:56  SPBS1 
      01/22/2004 23:10:07  DISCONN  01/22/2004 23:10:07  SPBS1 
      10/06/2003 11:21:02  WORKING  10/06/2003 11:21:02  SPBS1 
      10/06/2003 11:20:58  SUSPEND  10/06/2003 11:20:58  SPBS1 
      09/27/2003 17:57:08  DISCONN  09/27/2003 17:57:08  SPBS1 
      07/14/2003 14:19:56  WORKING  07/14/2003 14:19:56  SPBS1 
      07/14/2003 14:04:24  SUSPEND  07/14/2003 14:04:24  SPBS1 
      07/14/2003 14:00:57  DISCONN  07/14/2003 14:00:57  SPBS1 
      06/25/2003 17:27:25  DISCONN  05/21/2003 08:18:35  ZXX01 
      05/21/2003 08:18:35  DISCONN  05/21/2003 08:18:35  SPBG1 
      02/24/2003 09:56:24  WORKING  02/24/2003 09:56:24  SPBG1 
      02/24/2003 09:56:21  SUSPEND  02/24/2003 09:56:21  SPBG1 
      12/23/2002 22:14:59  DISCONN  12/23/2002 22:14:59  SPBG1 
      09/12/2001 11:43:21  WORKING  04/01/1993 05:00:51  SPBG1 
      01/09/2001 19:38:45  WORKING  04/01/1993 05:00:51  NCM01 

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        TollFreeNumbers.com » All possible 1-800 number status says:
        October 18, 2007 at 8:26 am

        […] YoYo numbers - These are numbers that get disconnected and reconnected repeatedly, usually by Sprint. We label these when they are disconnected so that anyone backordering them understands that there is a high probability that they will be reconnected for the original owner before completing the aging process. […]

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