# Toll Free Service Access Codes
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final Rule. · Published 1996-07-11 · Effective 1996-06-25 · 61 FR 36515
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-17602
- **Category:** telecom-common-carrier
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 36515
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 61
- **Publication date:** 1996-07-11
- **Effective date:** 1996-06-25
- **FCC docket:** CC Docket No. 95-155
## Abstract

This final rule clarifies the Report and Order adopted by the Common Carrier Bureau in January 1996, regarding the reservation of 888 numbers corresponding to 800 numbers in which subscribers have asserted a commercial interest. In this decision the Commission provides procedures to allow the release, into the general pool of toll free numbers, any 888 number currently in the ``unavailable'' pool for which the 800 subscriber originally requesting special treatment no longer wishes to assert an interest. Database Service Management, Inc. (``DSMI'') will make such release of 888 numbers only after collecting the appropriate authorizations from the Responsible Organization (``RespOrg'') and the 800 number customer releasing its 888 number reservation. The release of these numbers will allow the new 888 service orders to be more efficiently filled and equitably allotted.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/07/11/96-17602/toll-free-service-access-codes)
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