FCC Cuts Subscription Costs for Reassigned Numbers Database
The FCC on Monday announced lower prices to check the agency’s reassigned numbers database. The agency said it cut the costs of all existing subscription tiers by 20% and added two new tiers “to better meet industry needs.” The database…
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is “designed to prevent a consumer from getting calls intended for someone who previously held their phone number,” it said: “Subscribers use the database to determine whether a telephone number may have been reassigned so they can avoid calling the wrong consumer.” The changes should “make it easier for callers to check large volumes of numbers before calling them, potentially reducing misdirected calls from reaching consumers.”