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WPCNR HAYWIRE By John F. Bailey. October 25, 2021:
I forgot when making a local call to Peekskill Sunday that I needed to dial 914, but I got through to my party. I slapped my forehead. Realizing my mistake. But I got through!
Even though I was told by the Westchester Public/Private Partnership newsletter Friday the national Ten Digit Dialing “would be required for local calls starting October 24.”
This morning I called Altice Optimum to see why TEN DIGIT DIALING was not in effect. I could not get through BECAUSE Optimum requiring a pin number—when previously my phone number was enough for a technical question. That is a major problem, since I never had a pin number from Optimum ever.
I called Verizon public relations in Washington, D.C. leaving a message for Richard Young, Vice President for Public Relations, asking if the area code was automatically supplied if you dialed a 7-digit number and so far he has not gotten back to me.
I attempted to talk to AT&T cellphone service to see if the “914” “516” or “845” was automatically supplied through the miracle of telecommunications. Working through their voice mail prompts I was unable to supply the pin number nor the temporary pin number needed for me to talk to a person to answer this simple question.
I contacted the Westchester County Office of Communications to see if there was a reason for the system either not being in effect, or was in a delay.
The communications office issued this statement:
“That was the information that DSPS/Public Private Partnership was given, that 10 digit dialing was supposed to begin yesterday, October 24. That is why it was printed that way in our newsletter. We cannot speak to any kind of delay that may have taken place. “
WPCNR WESTCHESTER OFFICE OF NO COMMUNICATION COMMISSION.By Johnny Copy. October 22, 2021:
You’ll never know why you can’t reach your kid at college Sunday, your mother in assisted living in Rockland, your daughter in Suffolk, your local county offices, city hall, garage Sunday, buddy so I am calling you on my Bogart Phone here to warn you.
Westchester County may experience a total breakdown in communications Sunday, because the FCC has required that beginning Sunday, October 24, you must dial the full 10-digit number of anyone you are calling within area codes 914, 516 and 845, to facilitate the 988 to the National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Crisis Lifeline.
Nothing wrong with that. But tell people frequently. If you notify citizens of garbage pickup, you need to notify them of this type of major change. How tedious, dialing 914-769-0511 to dial my Aunt in Pleasantville.
Just a little warning would be necessary, just a little.
You can’t make this stupidity up. This is not the way to do it. But government seems to do this all the time. Have to provide a service, the method is to provide the service and create havoc to do it. I guarantee this may create a massive communication disruption.
But maybe I am just the only person who did not know this. It’s entirely possible.
How can I explain the stupidity of this? Do you have to put a “1” in front of the 10-digit number you are calling? Does it affect 911 at all? Does the White Plains Police number have to be dialed 914-422-6111 or else or else, the FCC says “Local phone calls without the ten digits will not go through.”
I repeat, “Local phone calls without the ten digits will not go through.”
Dumb people like me might just think their phones are out of order?
And you thought voice mail was bad. At least the call went through.
Say you want to reach your pals or the country club, Greca, you gotta dial 914- then the 7-digit number, calling city hall you have do dial 914-422-1411 even if you’re across the street! Criminy, Batman! Or maybe you don’t. Who knows.
Government strikes again! Shattering the consumer’s confidence in their competence!
It is time to disband the FCC–the commission that caved into congestion priortiy internet routing for the communications behemoths.
Who knew?
I found out from Brenda Starr, who found this little notice buried on page 5. The nosy red head noticed the buried article in the Westchester Public Private Partnership for Aging Services newsletter, and showed it to me.
More than slightly aging up people have to know this.
Surely this deserved a full blown news conference as big as a return to Standard Time next weekend.
It was buried! A public service spot on how to dial telephone calls in the metropolitan area capital of the world’s communications juggernaut might spring for that.
Wait for the chaos Sunday when you try to reach your brother in Chelsea or sister in Roxbury? Or organize a wedding, a taxi, UBer.
Surely, there must be some exceptions to this new practice? Are there? I don’t know buddy, but I thought I’d warn you
Who knew? I have received no notification of this requirement from Optimum, telephone-internet-cable provider. I have gotten no emails from providers of telephone services to this effect, and no reports on the “all news stations,” or as I refer to news outlets of the electronic and paper variety “No News Most of the Time, traffic and the weathe in themiddle of chaos radio” except accidents,, violent incidents and naive cruel decisions by vile ivory tower courts who should know better.
Where were the news crawls on television about this? Since I refuse to read what passes for newspapers these days, I expect they carried it. If they did not, as Captain Video, Master of Science once said, “You’ve got to warn the earth, gang!”
And, switch back to the “Scoop Phone” like mine (where Jenny the telephone operator whom the Martin family always called when Timmy and Lassie were in trouble), asks me ‘Number, please” and I’ll just say 914-995-2000 or 845- or 516 whatever.
Information please! In a timely manner.
Remember as Pete Hamill wrote “News is a verb.” not a buried blurb.
JOHN BAILEY AND JOHN MARINO AND THE NEWS ONTHE STARTLING NEW NUMBERS ON 5 TO 17 YEAR OLD COVID CASES IN MID HUDSON REGION AND COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER’S TESTING INITIATIVE–6 WEEKS OF INFECTIONSWHITE PLAINS SALES TAX RECEIPTS REBOUND BEST 1ST QUARTER SINCE BEFORE COVIDJOHN BAILEY WELCOMES JOHN MARINO AS GUEST ANCHOR
