Shared Use by a resporg = HOARDING
Shared Use can be a valid business if it meets a few requirements for shared use. And I’ve written about when shared use can cross the line into Hoarding. But there’s a special case where Shared Use is always, by definition Hoarding, and that’s when they are both the Phone Company (aka the Resporg) and the Shared use company. And just because they set up two different business names doesn’t make it any less hoarding, if they’re controlled by the same people.
Just because shared use is a valid thing to do with a toll free number, doesn’t mean that shared use is a valid reason to acquire toll free numbers and it certainly doesn’t give you the right to grab up as many as you want. This is the very reason that the rules about hoarding were put in place. Just because you call yourself a shared use company doesn’t make you somehow immune to regulations on hoarding or give you the authority to get as many numbers as you want.
Share use by a resporg is essentially the perfect definition of hoarding because it requires obtaining the number before there is an actual end user for the number. A resporg is supposed to get numbers out of the spare pool at the request of end users, not for some future potential end user. One of the best specific examples of hoarding toll free numbers, is Greg Fernandez’s company, The Telco. With virtually no customers and no disernable marketing he has been acquiring hundreds of good numbers from other phone companies acting as both the phone company and the customer. This is clearly what the FCC regulations against hoarding were designed to prevent.
UPDATE: There’s a more recent example of this with a lot of statistics and details Potential hoarding of Toll Free Numbers by a resporg (who also happens to do shared use).
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
Where do all the ‘800′ numbers go? at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
August 31, 2009 at 10:03 am
[...] Free Blog Shared Use by a resporg = HOARDINGDon’t get trapped in the wrong 800 ServiceIf it’s too good to be true, Spell Check it!Where do [...]
Where do all the ‘800′ numbers go? at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
August 31, 2009 at 10:03 am
[...] Free Blog Shared Use by a resporg = HOARDINGDon’t get trapped in the wrong 800 ServiceIf it’s too good to be true, Spell Check it!Where do [...]
Do you want to be a Ticket Scalper? at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
August 31, 2009 at 10:04 am
[...] Free Blog Shared Use by a resporg = HOARDINGDon’t get trapped in the wrong 800 ServiceIf it’s too good to be true, Spell Check it!Where do [...]
66 old resporgs and 73 new ones at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
August 31, 2009 at 10:05 am
[...] Teliax NEX01 Teloquest/SinglePIPE WQW01 Teltrust Corp. WPI01 The Garden City Group, WYE01 The Telco (Greg Fernandez) XBA01 Threshold Communications VHS01 TracFone Wireless, XFW01 TSG Global, XZG01 USA [...]
Where’s that sucking sound coming from? at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
June 21, 2010 at 9:00 pm
[...] also: Shared Use by a resporg = HOARDING Congratulations to CallSource.com (No Ratings Yet) Loading [...]
Comparing sites that offer to get 855 numbers at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
August 25, 2010 at 2:38 pm
[...] We don’t claim ownership of numbers and rent toll free numbers at all. Because if a phone company claims ownership of and rents out their own numbers, then even if they say you get ownership of the number, you’re essentially competing with them. [...]