The U.S. is seeing increasing utilization of phone numbers, Neustar...
The U.S. is seeing increasing utilization of phone numbers, Neustar said in an FCC filing. In 2000, by its count, there were 440.4 million assigned phone numbers and 545.5 million non-available numbers. Last year, those figures were at 720.7 million…
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for assigned and 813.9 million for non-available numbers. “During this time period, the average annual growth rate for assigned and non-available telephone numbers was 4.6 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively,” Neustar said. “This rate of increase far outpaced the average annual growth rate for the U.S. population, which was .9 percent during the same period.” The trend continued the last two years, the company said (http://xrl.us/bmyr9s).