Re: New 10 digit dialing problems

["Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All my panels dial a toll free number.  No problem.


"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Effective 17 June 2006, residents of the two area codes 613 and 819 in
> Eastern Canada will be required to dial the area code before the number in
> order to make any kind of local call. This has a major bearing on how
> alarm panels work, since they too have to dial a 10 digit receiver number,
> and I'm sure most alarm companies are rushing to reprogram their customers
> panels. However, I have to wonder what is going to happen to all those
> many thousands of older panels which have been acquired through
> aquisitions by the larger companies, and which are not capable of being
> dialed into to make the necessary changes to the receiver number. 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.
>
> I have to wonder about those customers who will never know their panels
> are not working until they fail at a time when they are most needed, since
> at least one of the largest companies routinely doesn't use automatic test
> signals, and as such, no "failure to communicate" troubles will ever show
> up on the keypads. Also, you have to wonder how many fires will go
> undetected early because smoke detectors are unable to call in to the
> monitoring station, and the bearing that will have on liabilities at all
> levels... (Hello Prudential !! )
>
> I know 10 digit dialing has been put into place in many other areas of
> North America previously. Can anyone that's gone through it shed any light
> on what happened in their area when it came about, and what sorts of
> things we can expect to see here.
>
> Any way you look at it, it doesn't appear to be much of a pretty
> picture....
>
> RHC
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