Somos, Inc.
Somos, Inc., is a company that manages registry databases for the telecommunications industry. Additionally, since January 1, 2019, the company has been the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, under a contract granted by the Federal Communications Commission. It was announced at the 2015 Toll-Free User Summit in Orlando, Florida, that the company, formerly known as "SMS/800, Inc.", would be rebranding under the new name, Somos, Inc. On April 4, 2016, the Enhanced SMS/800 platform was launched and made available to Resp Orgs in order to provide additional functionality. Somos, Inc., administers the assignment of toll-free telephone  numbers in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) This company has been designated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to administer the "Service Management System (SMS) Database" for Responsible Organizations (Resp Orgs) and service control points (SCPs), as defined by the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) Part 52 Section 101, and stipulated in "800 Service Management System (SMS/800) Functions Tariff - FCC No. 1". Somos operates various web interfaces over a virtual private network for Resp Orgs to register toll-free telephone numbers. Somos admits and registers Resp Orgs according to qualification criteria including a required exam. It provides training materials  and education in the U.S. History. Toll-free telephone service is a telecommunication service in which subscribers are assigned telephone number in NPAs 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, and 833. Calls to these numbers incur no toll charges for callers. The American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) first introduced 800 toll-free service in 1967. When AT&T was the only Interexchange carrier, local exchange carriers automatically routed all toll-free calls directly to an AT&T point of presence without performing a translation from the toll-free number to the terminating telephone number. The LECs routed the calls to AT&T based  on the first three digits (800) of the dialed number. AT&T then performed all number translations and service area validation screenings.