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Reassigned Number Database

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What is the Reassigned Number Database (RND)?

The Reassigned Number Database (RND) was developed and made operational by the FCC on November 1, 2021. It is a database of telephone numbers that have been permanently disconnected (or reassigned) and includes the date of disconnect. “Callers” must use the database to determine if a telephone number has been disconnected since the date of the last successful contact and to help ensure they are contacting the correct customer.
When a telephone number is reassigned or permanently disconnected, companies calling consumers may inadvertently reach the new consumer (who now has the reassigned number), not who they intended to call (the number’s prior owner). These calls can be annoying to the recipients who do not want to receive them and can subject callers to liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The RND is an important step to help companies comply with the TCPA and avoid fines of $500 to $1,500 per call. And the worst part is that the calling company may not realize they are violating the TCPA until it is too late, and they are hit with the costly fines.

What are the benefits of using the Reassigned Number Database

A few benefits of using the RND are:

Who should use the RND?

Any entity or enterprise that calls or texts. A few examples are:
List cleaning service

How do you use the RND?

The RND is not a database that an organization can download and use on their premises. The consumer telephone numbers and date the number was last successfully called must be uploaded by the calling company or Caller Agent to the FCC’s RND website. This information will be used to query the database and identify if the number has been disconnected (or reassigned) since the date submitted.

Does the RND work?

After almost 2 years of operation, the database now contains over 380 million disconnected (or reassigned) telephone numbers, processed over 1 billion queries and helped companies avoid making 46 million calls/texts to the wrong person.

Why choose Interactive Marketing Solutions (IMS) as your callers’ agent?

Interactive Marketing Solutions (IMS) is a registered callers’ agent and is authorized to submit telephone numbers to the Federal Communications Commission’s Reassigned Number Database on behalf of callers to determine if the number has been disconnected (or reassigned) since the last successful called date. A few of the advantages of using IMS as your callers agent to query the database are:

Ease of registration and data submission

No requirement to purchase large blocks of queries

Flexible file and data formats

Identification of Wireless, Landline and VoIP telephone numbers

Subscribers to our Wireless – Ported Numbers files will receive wireless, landline or VoIP identification for each telephone number submitted free of charge. And return the results to you within minutes.

Ask about our Non-Public Protected Information program for data classified as PHI, PFI, etc.

How do I get started?

Complete and email the CallerAgent registration package to solutions@ims-dm.com to provide us permission to register you as a client and upload data on your behalf.

Return Code Description
Yes (The number has been disconnected)
Queried number is contained in the database and the date the Caller provides in the query is the same as or before the permanent disconnect date for that number in the RND.
No (The number has not been disconnected and may be called)
Queried number is contained in the database and the date the Caller provides in the query is after the permanent disconnect date contained in the RND. Or the number is not in the database and the date the Caller provides is on or after January 27, 2021.
No_Data (The RND cannot determine if the number has been disconnected)
The queried number and a permanent disconnect date are not contained in the database and the date provided in the query is before January 27, 2021.
Invalid
The telephone number and/or date is invalid, and the data was not matched to the reassigned database. (See Note Below)

*Note – Query Validation Criteria

Telephone Number – 10 or 11 (+1) digits and may include separators (e.g.,5555555555, 555-555-5555, (555)555-555, 15555555555, etc.).

Date – Valid Date Format (MM/DD/YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, MM/DD/YY, etc).

Subscribe to our SmartClean Service below to get started with the RND.

Payment for the SmartClean (RND) service is due after files have been uploaded – at that time a price will be displayed and credit card information requested. If the webpage is closed without entering the credit card information, the uploaded file is deleted from our server and no charges are incurred. Call for SFTP billing arrangements.

For pricing and other questions, please email solutions@ims-dm.com or call 203-653-2762.