Re: New 10 digit dialing problems

["Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, ADT never finished the job. They ended up losing 250,000+
accounts due to funding problems. ADT was using subcontractors to accomplish
this on a national scale. This happened around the time their former CEO was
indicted on tax evasion.

Jim Rojas



"J. Sloud" <jsloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:oelq52117v4c6nn8u88gus859lf54hu0ha@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, 4 May 2006 23:44:08 -0400, "R.H.Campbell"
> <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't seem practical (or
>>even logistically possible) to make a visit to each panel to program the
>>changes, especially for the largest companies with multi thousands of
>>these
>>panels in service.
>>
>
> A few years ago,  ADT in the US undertook a project to eliminate
> bridge sites and their assoicated forwarded phone numbers.   At one
> time each ADT district had an individual central station.  As
> technology evolved, these centrals were regionalized and then
> nationalized resulting in the need to forward signals of the older
> systems to the national monitoring centers.  The exisitng local
> central stations were converted to bridge sites.  Eventually these
> bridge sites were eliminated.  A technican was dispatched to every
> single account to reprogram the panels to dial an 800 number, so it
> has been done before on a much larger scale than anything you have up
> north of the border.  I'm not sure about  ADT Canada.  The project may
> have extended to all of North America.
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