Re: New 10 digit dialing problems

["mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxxx>]

hmmmmmm, methinks Bobby smells some easy takeovers...

"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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