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Where did all the old-fashioned 800 numbers go?

Roughly a quarter of the 800 numbers in the US and Canada (as opposed to those newfangled 888 and 877 numbers) have been grabbed up by a Philadelphia company called PrimeTel Communications which appears to be a front for a phone sex business.

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