“Too Good to be True” – Unfortunately, that’s the Case with the FCC’s New Reassigned Number Database

Editor's Note: This article previously appeared on the Ontario Systems Blog and is republished here with permission.

If you are like me, you cheered when you read the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is coming out with a reassigned mobile phone number database. Visions of daily scrubs against a free public database of mobile phone numbers supported by carriers across the land danced in my head. But alas, such is not the case. Although the new database will have tremendous value, it is value that will come with a price. 

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