Press: Articles, Quotes, News Releases
May 20, 2002 - Calling Scooby-Doo and getting a sex line instead : The Augusta Chronicle
"The mixups are a common complaint for adult entertainment companies that run toll-free lines," said Judith Oppenheimer, founder of ICB, a New York City consultancy firm for the toll-free industry."
August 22, 2002 - How to Make Yourself Reachable in 5 Places at Once : NY Times
"The hardest part of setting up a toll-free account is figuring out prices and the best way to reach the providers... Discount Long Distance Digest and WhoSells800.com have additional links as well as articles about the long-distance industry."
August 15, 2002 - 1-800 American Free Trade Association Formed to Represent Interests of Toll-free Number Services Industry : 1-800 AFTA
"Group calls upon FCC to create a competitive marketplace for toll-free number services"
March 1, 2002 - ICANN's ccTLD Quandary : ISPNews
"Murai, one of 19 ICANN directors, is already part of the ICANN process, Oppenheimer said, so it wasn't like ICANN did anything extraordinary to win a new convert in the international community."
July 19, 2001 - VeriSign Is Coming to Your Phone : The Industry Standard
"VeriSign is in the database commodity business," said Judith Oppenheimer, publisher of ICB Tollfree News, an online publication that covers telecommunications and the domain-name system. "It would like to run the numbering as well as the naming space, sans ITU [International Telecommunications Union] or ICANN oversight."
April 6, 2001 - Beware slippery slopes AKA be careful what you wish for ... : Adventive's I-Strategy, letter to the editor
"I have said and written all along that the IP lobby used the straw man cybersquatter as the path to control the domain name system - the DNS - for he who controls the DNS, controls the Internet."
April 1, 2001 - The ENUM Issue: Obscure But Important: ICANNWatch
An article at ICB TollFree argues that there is a hidden "gotcha" in these new contracts - an ICANN assertion of control over the utterly obscure but incredibly important telephony initiative called ENUM. Indeed, this may only be one symptom of a larger problem."
March 7, 2001 - BULKREGISTER'S BULK RESTRUCTURING: CEO, OTHERS FIRED: InternetNews.com
Keyes told ICBTollFreeNews.com, which first reported the story, "No severance. Immediate. I have not been asked to help in any transition and they seem to have no idea how this will impact the marketplace."
March 4, 2001 - REALLY WRONG NUMBER: St. Petersburg Times
"When you think tissue, you think Kleenex. Soda, you think Coke," Oppenheimer says. "Toll-free, you think 800."
January 25, 2001 - Dialing for Dollars: Office.com
Easy-to-remember, toll-free numbers such as Maroone's are a "cash register" for businesses, especially "vanity numbers" using a word associated with the company or its service, says Judith Oppenheimer, an industry analyst and president of ICB Toll-Free Consultancy in New York.
January 24, 2001 - Computing and IT Expert Lynn Named CEO of ICANN: Washington Internet Daily
"My sense is that the board hired an academic to fill current CEO Michael Roberts' seat because he wouldn't make waves," Oppenheimer said.
January 11, 2001 - Survey Shows ICB 800, Domain & ENUM Reporting Yields Avid Readership: PR Newswire
62% of respondents read ICB daily; 56% share ICB news and articles with business associates; and a whopping 78% of respondents say ICB highlights news and issues they don't find published anywhere else.
January 5, 2001 - ICB Recommended ...: InfoWorld.com
"It's expanded far beyond 800 numbers and has become an important source of inside information for anyone whose business depends upon Internet domain names."
December 22, 2000 - How to get an inside track to the Internet names your business needs, the ICANN way: InfoWorld.com
Columnist Brian Livingston braved the insanity of ICANN's recent board meeting, and spoke with Judith Oppenheimer, "the editor of an astute high-tech newsletter," he says, to help clarify outcomes of the messy aftermath.
November 17, 2000 - Vint Cerf Blocks Bid for .web: The Dot
No one said it would be easy and it wasn't. We expected ICANN-centricity to present front and center and, in all its foolish glory, it did. But even we couldn't have predicted an audience stunned into silence by the absurdity, the mockery, and sometimes cartoonish embarrassment of the ICANN board's performance. ICB's Judith Oppenheimer reports from the ICANN Annual Meeting in Marina Del Rey.
November 15, 2000 - ICANN Down to Discussing Dots: Wired.com
Forget dot-xxx. The same goes for dot-kids. But dot-biz, dot-web and dot-union?
October 31, 2000 - .Tel Wants to Set Telephone Number Policy: The Dot
Buried among and receiving little notice within the 47 new TLD applications under public review is .tel, "A Top-Level Domain For The Emerging Internet-Telephony Industry"...
October 26, 2000 - You're the dot tenant for chrissake: notes, quotes, provocations and other fair use
it's like your property is confiscated by mob rule
October 15, 2000 - Another golden roving_reporter award...: The roving reporter
Brown of Nose, Craned of Neck, Dot WS Puckers Up to TM Booty.
October 10, 2000 - ICANN Takes Top-Level Domain Proposals: Inter@ctive Week
The Internet's oversight body has quietly changed its own rules to give European leaders a new top-level domain.
August 18, 2000 - Survey Reveals Platforms Of Prospective ICANN Board Members: The URLY Indicator
The At Large Members of ICANN are participating in a historic first -- a worldwide online election to choose Directors for the Internet's governing body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
August 14, 2000 - New ICB Survey Reveals Platforms of Prospective ICANN Board Members: PR Newswire
ICANN's membership-at-large nomination process closes Phase I
August 11, 2000 - ICANN Member Nominations -- Running Blind: Domain Notes
There are two avenues by which an individual can appear on the ballot for this year's At Large elections.
August 11, 2000- ICANN At-Large Election Diary -- Exit the Monolithic Blob: The URLY Indicator
Thursday morning August 10th, ICB Toll Free News reported that ICANN was blasted by At-Large candidate Karl Auerbach for expropriating his copyrighted work, and compromising its legibility and efficacy.
August 11, 2000 - The Battle For New Domain Names: on24 Financial i-network
Hear ICB Publisher Judith Oppenheimer in a lively roundtable discussion on On24 Financial i-Network.
August 7, 2000 - ICANN TLD Delay: Domain Notes
ICANN TLD Delay Reads Like a Skit From Seinfeld
August 4, 2000 - ICANN faulted for TLD delay: Internet News Radio
Internet NewsRadio Newscast...Interview with Judith Oppenheimer is the last article in newscast.Get RealPlayer
August 2, 2000 - The answer to toll-free boom is birth of 4th and 5th number: NJ Star Ledger News
Eight million isn't what it used to be.
July 25, 2000 - New Toll Free Numbers -- Will Vanity Affect This Weekend's 866 Roll-Out?: PR Newswire
On the eve of new toll free code 866, a stay is sought pending resolution of vanity number issues.
July 20, 2000 - New Toll-Free Numbers Soon Available: The Discount Long Distance Digest
On July 29 at 12 p.m., the floodgates to new toll free code 866 will open. If recent history is any indication, "replications" of existing vanity numbers and competition for others, will leave the database premium-number exhausted within half an hour or so of code opening.
July 7, 2000 - Behind Enemy(tm) Lines: The URLY Report
A recent URLY Report article, "QUESTIONS OF JURISDICTION IN DOMAIN DISPUTES", discussed the global level negotiations currently taking place on that very subject.
July 3, 2000 - Afternic, ICANN Settle Lawsuit: ISP News
On July 3, 2000, ICANN's legal counsel contacted Afternic's lawyers to settle Aftnernic's lawsuit. The agreement specifically allows co-branded registrars. ICANN's web site lies, in detail, about the agreement.
June 27, 2000 - WIPO is CyberHQ; Daybreak dawns on IPC McCarthyism: Domain Notes
We now face a coup, 21st century-style imperialism: quite literally, a corporate sponsored government takeover.
June 26, 2000 - Users to Lose Web Addresses Over Unpaid Fees: Washington Post
"It's an inherently unfair thing to do," said Judith Oppenheimer, president of ICBtollfree.com and member of an Icann oversight group.
June 26, 2000 - NSI: Sind unbezahlte Domains Freiwild? (in German): internetworld.de
Die weltgrößte Domainvergabestelle, Network Solution, will frei werdende Domains versteigern / Vorhaben unter scharfer Kritik von Kunden und Wettberwerbern / ICANN prüft.
June 24, 2000 - Network Solutions to sell delinquent names: The Washington Post
Internet address king Network Solutions Inc. this week notified thousands of owners of online domain names with delinquent registration bills that it would "auction" their Internet addresses to the public unless they pay by Wednesday.
June 23, 2000 - In Order To Form A More Privileged Oligarchy: The URLY Report
"We now face a coup, 21st century-style imperialism: quite literally, a corporate sponsored government takeover..."
June 21, 2000 - Domain Names: Exclusive Dominion, Or Level Playing Field?: News Web
Dana Blankenhorn writes in a recent article entitled 'End Domain Name Hoarding,' "Hoarding and speculation have captured the imagination of otherwise-sane individuals in politics, in sport, even in the church."
June 20, 2000 - Beyond the UDRP --Global Intellectual Property Law Enforcement and Jurisdiction: Domain Notes
We read weekly of new battles won and lost between domain name holders and trademark (intellectual property) owners, played out on the ICANN UDRP stage.
June 16, 2000 - Questions Of Jurisdiction In Domain Disputes: The URLY Report
Questions have been posed on Afternic's policy forums as to jurisdiction in cross-border domain disputes.
June 9, 2000 - How Can Any Organization That Sells The Last Word Be Fair And Unbiased?: The URLY Report
A Federal Court conducted an extensive review of domain dispute arbitrator NAF and confirmed that it is "a reasonable, fair and impartial forum."
May 26, 2000 - Run Up The Flag And Salute: The URLY Report
The question arose this week in Afternic.com's burgeoning policy forum, as to what role the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) plays in the ICANN debacle beyond its role as one of the UDRP Arbitrators.
May 17, 2000 - What will NSI do next ... ?: Domain Notes
Last week Network Solutions made some startling announcements about its domain name registration service.
May 17, 2000 - The Bad Witch ICANN: Tita-nic.com
Once upon a time, a domain name was a secure piece of virtual real estate that you could confidently build a business on.
May 15, 2000 - NSI Enters 800 Domain-Name Market: Discount Long Distance Digest
NSI's sudden entry into the 1-800 market serves as validation of the 1-800 vanity industry and its brand relationship with domain names.
May 15, 2000 - ICBTollFree.com's Expert Management Available for Perspective On Breaking NSI Story: PR Newswire
Network Solutions (NSI), the world's leading provider of Internet registration services announced last week that it has entered the 1-800 domain name market.
May 9, 2000 - ICB Toll Free Runs Premium Special: Discount Long Distance Digest
Because today more than ever, information is power, ICB ''is offering a sharply discounted special on ICB Premium to help expand the information power base, particularly to more small businesses and entrepreneurs.''
May 9, 2000 - ICB 800 & Dot-Com Insider News: PR Newswire
"Great behind the scenes information," advises Jeffrey Tinsley, CEO of GreatDomains.com.
April 28, 2000 - Sunrise+20: The Numbers Tell the Story: Domain Name Handbook
Working Group B was created in Berlin last summer explicitly to address Chapter Four of the Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process, "The Problem of Notoriety: Famous and Well-known Marks".
April 19, 2000 - The Advantages of Toll-Free Numbers: Office.com
No matter where an ad is placed — TV, radio, magazine or billboard — a toll-free number is sure to boost response rates.
April 19, 2000 - New TLD's at Any Price: Domain Notes
or, He Who Controls the DNS(tm), Controls the Internet
April 5, 2000 - ICB Toll Free & Telecom Digest Forge Alliance: PR Newswire
'The Addition of ICB's daily HeadsUp Headlines, with its Unique Spotlight on Toll Free 800 and Domain Name Issues, Puts Critical Content on the Front Burner for Digest Readers'
April 4, 2000 - Telecom Digest Joins ICB: The Discount Long Distance Digest
Patrick Townson, digest editor, notes, ''ICB's Judith Oppenheimer is a frequent and valued contributor to 'TELECOM Digest.' The addition of ICB's daily 'HeadsUp Headlines,' with its unique spotlight on toll-free 800 and domain name issues, puts critical content on the front burner for digest readers. Its a win-win relationship, and we're very pleased to have ICB on board.''
March 23, 2000 - SNAC Delays Toll Free Codes: The Discount Long Distance Digest
At issue is FCC-mandated ''first come first serve.'' Measured in nanoseconds, the ramifications can be significant, particularly regarding prized vanity numbers.
March 20, 2000 - The Value of "I Want": Domain Notes
It's no secret the domain name real estate market is hot, catching up to and quickly surpassing the 800 vanity number market due to its legal status.
February 16, 2000 - Daily 800 / Dot Com News Service Tracks Important Stories: PR Newswire
ICB Toll Free News, premier source of toll free 800 and dot com industry intelligence, today announced the addition of "Recent Noteworthy" headlines to monitor important industry developments.
February 10, 2000 - Recommend-It Recommends WhoSells800.com: DMNews.com
Recommend-It, a Web-site referral service, said yesterday it has recognized WhoSells800.com as one of its Top 10 Sites for Direct Marketers, in its new RecCenter, a directory of the top Web sites in its network.
February 9, 2000 - Toll Free Service Provider Directory Recognized as a Top 10 Site for Direct Marketers by Recommend-It.com: World Telemedia 2000
With over 43,000 registered sites on its roster, Recommend-It (http://recommend-it.com) has recognized WhoSells800.com (http://whosells800.com) as one of its Top 10 Sites for Direct Marketers in its new RecCenter, a directory of the top websites in its network.
February 9, 2000 - WhoSells800.com: Toll Free Service Provider Directory Recognized As a Top 10 Site for Direct Marketers by Recommend-It.com: PR Newswire
"Recommend-It launched the RecCenter to highlight the most active sites in the Recommend-It network," said Geoffrey G. Gussis, President & General Counsel, Digital Demographics, Inc.
February 7, 2000 - Free Daily Email Delivers Hot Dot Com News Headlines: PR Newswire
ICB Toll Free News has covered 800 and dot com politics, power plays, trends, and impacts, delivering competitive intelligence to a business readership of corporate and industry giants, as well as small business owners and entrepreneurs, since 1995.
February 7, 2000 - ICB Offers Free Email And News: The Discount Long Distance Digest
HeadsUp Headlines is a free email service that includes news summaries plus modified text and site access. At eight to 10 headlines daily, a quick glance flags important 800 and dot-com developments for busy execs.
January 20, 2000 - Comments of the Office of Advocacy U.S. Small Business Administration On the WG-C Interim Report: SBA Office of Advocacy
It should be clearly understood that while Advocacy believes safeguards are need to protect trademark rights, it is also our view that they should not be used as a means to expand trademark protection beyond current limits.
October 28, 1999 - 1 800 Compute: Target Marketing
A former reader of Who's Mailing What, I've admired and respected the work of Denny Hatch for many years, but to my great surprise, he misses the boat on the subject of 800 vanity numbers and 800 versus 888, as well as domain names as trademarks, in the above reference article.
October 27, 1999 - Domain Names -- Divine Right, Or First Come First Serve?: News Web
In savvy political fashion, the strategy here is one of semantics: trademark interests claim dire need for “trademark protection..."
October 24, 1999 - Domain Names -- Has The Little Guy Already Lost?: TBTF Log
Tasty Bit from the Technology Front
October 21, 1999 - A New World Order: News Web
CyberHQ: THE NEW IMPERIALISM describes a new world order in which an organization's identity can belong to someone other than the organization itself.
October 4, 1999 - Don'tTakeMyDomainName.com: News Web
"You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, delete or transfer your domain name at any time."
October 1, 1999 - 800 Numbers Are Alive And Well: Target Marketing
Re: "Instant Branding" [Famous Last Words]
September 26, 1999 - Phone Devices Put Chill on Cold Calls Screening: Omaha World Herald
ID Altering Telemarketing
September 1, 1999 - Call-screening puts telemarketers on hold: Associated Press
While call-screening methods might be gaining popularity with consumers, telemarketers say it doesn't necessarily spell the end of the industry.
July 1, 1999 - The 800 number...the original interactive medium: eMarketer
Last week, in The Worth of a Brand, eMarketer considered how the web affects brand value.
July 20, 1999 - Who Sells 800? Ask The Expert: PR Newswire
A new service offers advice about toll-free numbers and service, 800, 888 and 877 number marketing; and toll freecarrier and vendor choices.
July 18, 1999 - The 800 number...the original interactive medium : Ovation Marketing E-news
"Yet another viewpoint that reflects our own, that an integrated approach using a combination of the right vehicles is essential to widespread success."
July 16, 1999 - The Web's Definitive Area Code Resource: Areacode-info.com
I often wonder if number pooling is going to be the magic pill everyone envisions.
July 5, 1999 - The 800 Number -- the Original Interactive Brand: eMarketer
Last week, in The Worth of a Brand, we considered how the web affects brand value.
May 1, 1999 - Going, Going...Gone: Direct Magazine
About 140,000 toll-free numbers in the 888 code that were reserved from use two years ago were made available on April 5. And they went like-well, like toll-free numbers.
April 4, 1999 - WhoSells800.com: FCC to Release Unclaimed 888 Vanity Numbers: PR Newswire
With customer demand for toll free vanity numbers soaring, the Federal Communications Commission has ordered the release of approximately 190,000 vanity 888 numbers, beginning today at noon EST.
March 12, 1999 - ICB Launches Directory of Toll-Free Providers: DIRECTnewsline
New York telemarketing consultancy ICB Inc. has launched an Internet-based directory of toll-free service providers.
March 5, 1999 - How To "1-800-FLOWERS" On A Budget: News Web
How to extend the life of your advertising, increase calls by 25% or more, and improve the quality of your leads to people who are ready to buy - on a small business budget.
January 20, 1999 - 800 Vanity Numbers Trounce Numeric Toll-Free's: News Web
Vanity phone numbers dramatically increase advertising response rates, according to a new study. The results of this study are overwhelming evidence that vanity numbers are truly indispensable.
October 1, 1998 - Vanity 800s in peril: Catalog Age
If you think your vanity 800-number is protected under trademark laws, think again.
September 16, 1998 - A Rose By Any Other Name ...: News Web
In a regulatory environment where the FCC has ruled that user-interest-in-vanity number-issues should be addressed by the courts under the trademark protection laws, and furthermore, where the Commission's own regulations prohibit the free market from resolving these concerns, 1 800 FLOWERS goes to court.
September 8, 1998 - 800 Numbers, Vanities, Dominate TV Commercials: News Web
Twenty-four percent of television commercials contain a toll-free number; of those, 91% using the 800 prefix and 57% of which are vanity (numbers that translate into words for easy recall).
August 28, 1998 - ICG promises callers savings with long-distance network: American City Business Journals
Residents and small businesses in Columbus and 30 other cities are now able to make domestic long-distance voice calls for as little as 5.9 cents a minute on a data network supplied by ICG Communications Inc.
July 20, 1998 - Who Is Going To Educate The FCC?: News Web
Protecting the value of and investment in a vanity number is, to be sure, a valid consideration for individual holders of those numbers.
July 2, 1998 - Bell Atlantic Corp. to Police Crammers Starting This Weekend: Daily Record Business Writer
Putting on its most customer-friendly face, Bell Atlantic Corp. will take a stand against the billing of unauthorized service charges when it simplifies the process of removing them starting on Saturday.
April 2, 1998 - Businesses fear new toll-free area code will confuse customers: Sun-Sentinel
Would you have to pay for that call, or is it toll-free? Don't know? Who could? With new area codes coming out at a dizzying pace, it's hard to keep them straight. And it's going to get worse.
March 31, 1998 - FCC On 800: Carriers 1, Users 0: News Web
In one fell swoop, the Federal Communications Commission has dismissed five Congressional leaders, the Small Business Administration, and legions of commercial users of toll free service.
March 24, 1998 - Level The Playing Field: News Web
Congressional leaders tell the FCC, "Vanity numbers are extraordinarily valuable marketing tools for large and small businesses alike..."
March 13, 1998 - 1 800 Go Gerow: News Web
Attorney Charlie Gerow is a GOP candidate for Congress who is a strong believer in the free market power of vanity toll free numbers.
February 19, 1998 - 1 800 IPO: News Web
"Many 800 number companies offer competitively priced products and services and are currently locked out of badly needed public capital because of the FCC's stance," says Richard Sapio, CEO of 1 800 MUTUALS, Inc.
January 5, 1998 - SBA To FCC: Stay, Recind, & Reconsider: News Web
The Small Business Administration characterizes the FCC’s Toll Free Second Report and Order as “failing to recognize marketplace realities”, “arbitrary” and "capricious".
November 4, 1997 - 1 800 Fifty Thousand Bucks: News Web
In August, 1997, the Federal Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld a district court judgement regarding the toll-free number 1-800-FOR LEASE.
October 15, 1997 - 1 800 Small Biz: News Web
Here are a few unique tips toward minimizing cost, and maximizing utility and revenue, from your toll-free service.
October 13, 1997 - The Emperor Has No Clothes: News Web
For many companies the use of vanity numbers goes far beyond advertising or even marketing - the toll free number itself becomes a brand or product name (e.g., 1-800-FLOWERS, 1-800-COLLECT, etc.)
October 6, 1997 - 1 800 Aussie: News Web
Recognition of vanity value, and private trading of numbers between customers, are standard fare Down Under.
October 1, 1997 - Toll Free Consultant Stages A Guerrilla Launch: Marketing With Technology News
Judith Oppenheimer, a well known expert who tracks the national and international technical developments of the emerging telecom marketplace, had a wealth of strategic intelligence that needed packaging.
October 1, 1997 - Hoarding? Warehousing? Brokering?: Direct
Telecom companies oppose new FCC rules about obtaining toll-free numbers.
September 24, 1997 - It's Time To Make A Change: News Web
FCC “resource management” is running 800 Service into the ground.
September 11, 1997 - 1 800 Deutsche: News Web
Toll free vanity numbers are being introduced in Germany as of January 1, 1998.
September 11, 1997 - Referral Line Coming: The Bergen County Record
Bill Quimby's goal is to make the yellow pages as obsolete as rotary telephones.
September 8, 1997 - 1 800 Sundays - How Does MCI Do It?: News Web
MCI shares its powerhouse 800 marketing strategy.
September 5, 1997 - Toll Free Number Rationing - Again: News Web
It took 30 years to deplete 800 numbers It's only taken 18 months to deplete 888.
August 10, 1997 - European Toll Free/Toll Shared Market May Reach $5 Billion By 2002: News Web
The European toll-free and toll-shared services market earned more than $1 billion in 1996, and has the potential to reach $5 billion annually by the year 2002...
August 1, 1997 - Only 30% of U.S. consumers dial 888 numbers: Smart Computing/PC Today
Did you know that only 30% of U.S. consumers have ever dialed an 888 number?
July 24, 1997 - Ding Dong, The Auction's Dead: News Web
The toll free auction is dead, but only in the feline sense, i.e., it may have a few more lives left.
July 8, 1997 - 1 888 Flowers? Inquiring Minds Want To Know...: News Web
Should 1 888 FLOWERS be assigned to 1 800 FLOWERS? Regulators want to know if you think right of first refusal...
July 1, 1997 - U.S. Companies Ask Canadian Partners Join 888 Auction Fight: News Web
The possibility of a toll-free number auction was a particularly hot topic at Supercomm ‘97 because it has the potential to wreak havoc in the business world.
June 3, 1997 - The Most Neglected $12 Billion Asset in Corporate America Today: News Web
Corporate political alliance with telecom carriers, relied upon for preferential treatment, backfired. Miserably.
June 1, 1997 - Coinless Calls To Cost Toll-Free Industry & Customers Billions: News Web
While most industry studies estimate the cost of a coinless call, typically a calling card or toll-free call, at about 6 cents per call, the FCC’s payphone compensation plan reimburses payphone operators at 35-cents for each completed call.
May 21, 1997 - Congress Turns Deaf Ear on Nation's Largest Advertisers: News Web
888 Auction Remains on Congressional Agenda.
May 3, 1997 - Toll Free Cellular: News Web
Borne of regulatory loophole -- and welcomed by cellular carriers -- TollFree Cellular and its telco partners will perhaps escape the greedy clutches of the FCC control patrol, currently wreaking havoc in the wireline toll-free marketplace.
May 2, 1997 - Get The Facts - Avoid The Pitfalls: M2 Communications Ltd.
Did you know you could be jailed for having multiple 800 numbers? Did you know that only 30% of U.S. consumers have ever dialed an 888 number? Or that the flat-rate 800 ISP you're about to hand over your credit card to, may be under FBI investigation?
May 1, 1997 - Calling for Free: Telecommunications Online
Hampered by implementation delays, toll-free calling is yet to fulfill its international potential.
April 15, 1997 - FCC Negates Toll Free Industry in the Guise of the "Public Interest": News Web
This FCC Ruling - 80 pages of dismissive arrogance - reads over-regulation, anti-competition, and government imposition. Can Congressional auction of toll-free numbers be far behind?
April 4, 1997 - Replication. "To Be Or Not To Be" is not the question: News Web
If you want to protect your 800 numbers in the new toll-free exchanges, you're on your own.
April 1, 1997 - FCC Order in the Matter of Toll Free Service Access Codes: Teleplaza
Before the Federal Communications Commission...
March 17, 1997 - Global Toll-Free Service Arrives: Communications Week
Although E.T. had trouble phoning home, it doesn't mean your users should when they journey abroad.
March 12, 1997 - 888 Auction - It’s Back!: News Web
The auction of toll-free vanity numbers, first proposed by Congress last year, is back, slipped obscurely into the 1998 Budget Proposal.
March 1, 1997 - Marketers Locked Out Of Global 800 Number Loop: News Web
While carriers squabble over Global 800 vanity numbers like 800-INTERNET, non-carrier marketers are suddenly denied equal access to the Global 800 Database.
February 19, 1997 - Is Your Global 800 Number Still Available?: News Web
One innovative telecom company, along with the International Telecommunications Union, is now providing unprecedented information access to the public.
February 8, 1997 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind: News Web
In 1995, 800 user lobbying efforts resulted in ground-breaking FCC recognition of 800 brand and trademark considerations. It's 1997. Do users care less? Do consumers deserve less?
February 1, 1997 - 1 800 HOLIDAY Loses Trademark Battle: News Web
Supreme Court rules in favor of misdial marketer.
January, 1997 - TollFree's Unsolved Mysteries: Telemedia News & Views
AT&T and ICB appear to be on the same side of this issue. John Cushman, Director of Toll-Free Services for AT&T supports ICB's view that specific toll-free numbers have an intrinsic value. As Cushman says, "I believe that the arguments ICB makes, relative to toll-free number value, are supported by the history of the toll-free industry, current RespOrg to RespOrg practices, and our customers' positions on vanity number protection.
March 5, 1996 - FCC Extends 800 Protection - Only 10 Days Left: The Discount Long Distance Digest News
Alluding to the problems that 800 subscribers have had registering for 800 protection via their carriers, the FCC offered an unprecedented opportunity for subscribers to bypass the Resp Orgs and communicate directly with Database Services Management, Inc. (DSMI), which manages the 800 SMS Database.
March 1, 1996 - 888 Numbers Debut -- Where Are the Customers?: Opus Research
Lighting up the "888" toll-free service area code went off largely without a hitch. Bellcore's Database Service Management, Inc., (DSMI), along with the SMS800 Number Administration Center (SNAC) and the collective efforts of local exchange carriers, toll-free carriers, customers, regulators, and responsible organizations (RespOrgs) met every deadline leading up to the Friday, March 1, launch date.
February 4, 1996 - Troubleshooting 800 Protection: The Discount Long Distance Digest News
For those of you who've been able to get your RespOrgs to submit your 800 number(s) for protection (set-aside) in 888 pending the FCC rulemaking on replication, the next hurdle is February 8.
February 1, 1996 - 1-800-Vanish: Direct Magazine
New regulations may mean the loss of trademark numbers.
January 13, 1996 - 800 Replication - It's Now Or Never: The Discount Long Distance Digest News
Luckily for savvy businesses, while carriers are not publicizing this information, there is one consulting firm that's making sure its clients are protected.
November 13, 1995 - War of Words Over Toll-Free Number Ownership: Direct Magazine
Will vanity toll-free number holders like 1-800 Flowers get to keep their special digits when an 888 numbers are issued next year?
September 1, 1995 - 800 Numbers: The Discount Long Distance Digest
The alleged exhaustion of available 800 telephone numbers and proposed new rules on how the system is to be administrated has spawned a newsletter to keep users of 800, 900 and 555 numbers up-to-date.
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