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FCC ESTABLISHES REASSIGNED PHONE NUMBERS DATABASE TO HELP REDUCE UNWANTED CALLS TO CONSUMERS

December 12, 2018

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The Federal Communications Commission today adopted new rules to establish a reassigned numbers database that will reduce the number of unwanted phone calls Americans receive.

Millions of phone numbers are reassigned each year. When a consumer gets a new phone number that was previously assigned to another consumer, businesses and other callers frequently do not learn of the reassignment right away and may inadvertently call the new consumer rather than the prior holder of the number.

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