Re: New 10 digit dialing problems

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know Slink walked away from about 7,000 accounts down in Dade and Broward
County, Florida when they didn't make the dead line. ADT was working off of
an ooooooolllllllddddd customer list when they were out there changing
things over. I have a medical facility, that at that time, had been my
customer for about 4 years. I knew the previous company had sold to
Huizinga, who sold to Slink, who sold to ADT. They came in to change over to
10 digit dialing. I would say they were working off of a bad list. If they
had a current one, they might have got more done instead of chasing non
customers.

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3bd7g.508$W83.468@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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