On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:03 -0500, Jon Weisman wrote: > All, > > I'm interested in getting a toll free number, however when I dial the > number it says its disconnected. How can I find out which telco owns > the number and if I would be able to get it? >
If you call anyone that can provision the number they should be able to get it unless its on hold for someone. Carriers trade tollfrees all the time, any reasonable provider should be able to not only sell you the service but see if they can trade for this number (or buy it or whatever). If the number was recently disconnected you may not want the number due to people calling for the previous owner, why they are often held unused for 6 months or so after service is disconnected. You used to be able to call AT&T's tollfree support line, enter your number, and it will either transfer you to an operator (meaning AT&T is the resporg) or it will tell you the name and phone number of the resporg. Its just their normal number to report trouble with service, and its all automated upto the point where it transfers you to an operator. The other alternative is that sprint has been very helpful doing sms lookups, when I was a kid at least (over 15 years ago) we would call and say (litereally) "Hi this is wayne dolesman from the social engineering department and our systems are down, are yours down? no? good can you do an sms lookup for me? great. the number is ... can you give me the terminating pots? ..." oddly they never quested either the "warez department" or the "social engineering department" and would always tell you who the resporg is as well as virtually anything else about the line that they can see. > -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721
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