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ATIS Seeks FCC Guidance on Toll-Free Number Distribution

ATIS sought guidance from the FCC Wireline Bureau on distribution of nearly 16,000 toll-free numbers that are still being held by Somos, the current toll-free number administrator. The numbers "have been sitting unused for almost five years" and there have…

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been "multiple inquiries" about releasing them, ATIS said in a letter posted Wednesday in docket 17-192. It asked the bureau to direct Somos to release the numbers into a spare pool "as soon as possible." ATIS also asked the FCC to make unassigned true 800 numbers eligible for allocation with a limit of 125 numbers per organization.