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"toll free" numbers, was: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in U.S., Canada [telecom]

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> The marginal cost to me of a call to any number in the USA from my
> cell phone is *zero* - and '1-800' services were started for
> businesses to make it as easy and inexpensive as possible for their
> customers to call them, increasing customer traffic and thus
> sales. With that no longer being an issue for most customers, I'm
> seeing no reason why most businesses would retain them for much
> longer.

If a business is looking for a more national presence rather
than being thought of as based in Lower Cupcake, then a
"toll free" number still makes sense. It's not the "free"
nature of it so much, but the non-geographical mapping.

For some businesses, of course, the cachet of a specific
locale works the other way. Just to make up an example,
law firms might want to "look like" they're homed in
midtown Manhattan or Chicago.

(and yes, we all know that "area codes" are fading out
as a geo-tag. But there's still plenty of there, there.)



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Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in U.S., Canada [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-19 13:51 -0500
  Re: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in   U.S., Canada [telecom] "Michael G. Koerner" <mgk920@dataex.com> - 2011-04-22 11:51 -0500
    Re: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in U.S.,  Canada [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-22 14:28 -0500
      "toll free" numbers, was: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly   25% of 1-800 Numbers in U.S., Canada [telecom] danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2011-04-22 20:55 +0000
    Re: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in     U.S., Canada [telecom] "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2011-04-23 00:33 +0000
    Re: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in   U.S., Canada [telecom] tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-22 22:43 -0400
    Re: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in   U.S., Canada [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-23 09:07 -0700
      Re: Porn Company Has Snatched Up Nearly 25% of 1-800 Numbers in     U.S., Canada [telecom] "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2011-04-24 21:01 +0000

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