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Area Code Now Required For Landline Phone Users In Walnut Hill, Bratt, Molino
April 1, 2016
Frontier Communications landline users in Walnut Hill, Bratt and Molino must now dial the area code when placing a local call. The mandatory dialing procedure became effective April 1.
Due to the addition of a new telephone exchange number in McCullough, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, the new dialing procedure will require Molino and Walnut Hill callers in the 327 and 587 exchanges to use 10 digits (i.e., the area code plus the regular telephone number) for all local calls. Currently, these numbers can be dialed using seven digits. The 10-digit dialing procedure does not make the call a toll call.
For example, when calling Northview High School, customers in the 327 and 587 phone exchanges previously dialed 327-6681, but with the change will now dial (850) 327-6681.
Since February 1, customers in Molino, Bratt and Walnut Hill have been able to use either seven digits or the new 10-digit dialing procedure to place a call from the 850 area code. However, as of April 1, the new 10-digit dialing procedure will be required. Calls placed without using the new 10-digit dialing procedure will not be completed, and a recording will instruct customers to hang up and dial again.
Frontier is reminding customers to reprogram all services and automatic dialing equipment currently set to dial a seven-digit number to include the area code. Examples include life-safety systems or medical devices, PBXs, fax machines, Internet dial-up numbers, alarm and security systems/gates, speed dialers, mobile phone contact lists, call-forwarding settings and voicemail services.
Frontier customers should also check their websites, business stationery, advertising materials, personal and business checks, contact information and personal/pet identification tags to ensure the area code is included.
New Cingular Wireless PSC, LLC, a mobile voice and data communications service provider, obtained a new telephone exchange and forced the change, not Frontier Communications.
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3 Responses to “Area Code Now Required For Landline Phone Users In Walnut Hill, Bratt, Molino”
I work in the telecommunications business…What is happening is the old style Land Line phones ( phone on your wall) isn’t profitable and making money for phone companies any longer. Thats why when you call Frontier (where ever their call center is), you do not get service or support. It cost money to dispatch and possibly fix the old phone and that cuts into company profits for that old copper cable that has been in the ground for the last 50 years.
Just like big cable providers and government bureaucrats think everyone has cable TV & internet at 100Mb to their home. The Cell phone companies are trying to make up for their losses of wall phones by enticing everyone to a large data plan. Look around, like any learned and addictive behavior, most people in public are “scratching” on that glass device in their hand as if their life depended on it….thats wireless data in use.
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=1710208
From the attached link, “New Cingluar Wireless PLC, LCC, is just another word for AT&T Wireless PLC, LCC…(remember, Cingular purchased AT&T around 2005)… The new AT&T is forcing the issue on the 10 digit change in an attempt to gain customers in the are for their cell phone and more data package plans.
Its all about the Benjamins…..and who you want to give your $100.00 plus a month to..
After 18 yrs. of direct dialing to my vets. office I had to dial 1-251-!!!!!!!!!@@@, unknown if getting charged long distance or not! Just to put icing on cake, phone went out after I called vets. and when I called on Sat. morning I was told they can’t come out to fix until Monday.They really got last laugh!!!!!!!
Frontier really put an Aprilfool on us today for real