Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:26:16 -0400
To: Help Desk <help@wcnet.org>
From: Terry Moenich <trlemm@wcnet.org>
Subject: 10 Digit Dialing
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Morning all,
Now that things seem to be settling down, and life is good, the phone
companies are throwing us a curve.
Ameritech has sent their customers a notice that effective December
1, 2001, ALL callers in the 419 & 567 areas MUST dial all 10 digits
when making a local call. For example, my phone number is (419)
872-7421. If I call my neighbor, I'll have to dial 4198742235.
8742235 will no longer be allowed. To make things more interesting,
the actual implementation of this requirement will happen over the
week following December 1. So, not all areas will be affected at the
same time. Let me give you the exact language of the notice from
Ameritech:
"The requirement to dial all 10 digits to make a local call begins
December 1, 2001. This means that all callers in the 419 & 567 areas
MUST dial 10 digits for all local calls that time. The elimination
of 7-digit dialing will take approximately one week to complete.
Until the conversion is complete, customers may experience different
dialing patterns from different locations."
Soooooo, we'll need to notify our user base. I'm assuming that
Verizon, Sprint, etc. customers will be affected the same way.
Apparently, 10 digit dialing in by all phone companies in the 419
area is required. I'll be putting together an e-mail to the user
base and plan to send it out no earlier than Thursday and no later
than Friday. Ideas, comments, suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
I am planning on making the full text of the mailing available for
posting on the web.
Also, all our forms and pages that reference the phone number should
be changed, as soon as possible.
Finally, we should have a Tech meeting very soon. Please see the
following e-mail about that.
Terry
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Terry Moenich, General Manager Office: (877) 72-wcnet
Wood County Internet Council Fax: (419) 353-6082
310 West Gypsy Lane E-mail: trlemm@wcnet.org
P.O.Box 207
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
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<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Morning all,<br>
<br>
Now that things seem to be settling down, and life is good, the phone
companies are throwing us a curve.<br>
<br>
Ameritech has sent their customers a notice that effective December 1,
2001, ALL callers in the 419 & 567 areas MUST dial all 10 digits
when making a local call. For example, my phone number is (419)
872-7421. If I call my neighbor, I'll have to dial
4198742235.
8742235 will no longer be allowed. To make things more
interesting, the actual implementation of this requirement will happen
over the week following December 1. So, not all areas will be
affected at the same time. Let me give you the exact language of
the notice from Ameritech:<br>
<br>
"The requirement to dial all 10 digits to make a local call
begins December 1, 2001. This means that all callers in the 419
& 567 areas MUST dial 10 digits for all local calls that time.
The elimination of 7-digit dialing will take approximately one week to
complete. Until the conversion is complete, customers may
experience different dialing patterns from different
locations."<br>
<br>
Soooooo, we'll need to notify our user base. I'm assuming that
Verizon, Sprint, etc. customers will be affected the same way.
Apparently, 10 digit dialing in by all phone companies in the 419 area
is required. I'll be putting together an e-mail to the user base
and plan to send it out no earlier than Thursday and no later than
Friday. Ideas, comments, suggestions would be greatly
appreciated. <br>
<br>
I am planning on making the full text of the mailing available for
posting on the web.</font></div>
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Also, all our forms and pages
that reference the phone number should be changed, as soon as
possible.</font></div>
<div><font size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
Finally, we should have a Tech meeting very soon. Please see the
following e-mail about that.<br>
<br>
Terry</font><br>
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