Re: How to Call NANP Toll Free from Outside
The use of 88X "replace" codes has officially been "reclaimed" by Neustar NANPA and the ATIS INC. See NANPA Planning Letter #331 dated June 2, 2003, "Recovery of NPA Codes 880, 881, 882 (Paid Toll-Free Service) Scheduled for April 1, 2004",
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Even though the use of 880 (for 800), 881 (for 888), 882 (for 877) have been officially eliminated, it is quite possible that some overseas telecom admins still allow their customers to dial such codes for "paid" access to US or NANP based toll-free (800, 888, 877) numbers -- afterall, Neustar NANPA has not yet actively re-assigned
880, 881, 882, for "real" intra NANP toll-free numbers. And before there will be any (real) toll-free 880, 881, 882 numbers, the North American telco industry must use up all (most) 866 numbers, which has to happen before 855, then 844, then 833, and then 822 numbers can be used for real toll-free numbers -- and then, and only then, will you probably begin to see (real) toll-free numbers with the toll-free area codes
88x (of course 888 was already assigned and put into use). It was thought that 855 would be needed simultaneously with 866 when 866 was planned to open up for assignments in April 2000. However the FCC delayed the opening up of 866 for real toll-free number assignments until Novmeber 2000, and the FCC also put an indefinite "hold" on the opening up of 855 for real toll-free numbers as well, back in 2000. At the rate things are going, it might be years before we even get to 833 or 822, much less any (non-888) 88x toll-free codes.
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Posted 5 years ago by Anthony Bellanga in General Telecommunications Forum
