New 929 area code Is Coming Soon to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island
Occupants and Businesses Should Prepare for Area Code Overlay
NEW YORK, April 12, 2011/PRNewswire/ - Residents and organizations inside the current 718, 347 and 917 region codes serving four districts of New York City ought to get ready for the presentation of the 929 territory code.
Verizon declared Tuesday (April 12) that starting Saturday (April 16) its clients in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island who demand new help, add an extra line or, at times, move their administration, might be allocated a number in the new 929 zone code.
To guarantee a proceeding with flexibly of new phone numbers for the New York City zone, the New York Public Service Commission requested 929 to be another zone code called an "overlay" serving similar geographic regions as the other zone codes in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
Verizon has likewise guaranteed that its organization perceives and can flawlessly interface calls from clients of different broadcast communications transporters who may give numbers with the new 929 area code.
The central realities that shoppers and organizations need to think about the forthcoming 929 territory code overlay are:
• Their phone number, including current region code, won't change.
• They will keep on dialling one or more the region code, in addition to the phone number for all calls.
• What is a nearby call presently will stay a neighbourhood call.
• Calls between the 929, 718, 646, 917, 212 and 347 region codes are neighbourhood calls.
• The cost of a call, the inclusion region or different rates and administrations won't change because of the overlay.
• Consumers and organizations can participate in any case dial only three digits to arrive at 911.
• If 211, 311, 411, 511, 611, 711 or 811 are right now accessible in a specific network, purchasers and organizations will participate in any case dial these codes with only three digits
Verizon supporters should keep on recognizing their phone number as a ten-digit number (zone code in addition to a seven-digit phone number), and incorporate the zoning code when giving the number to their companions, family, business partners and clients and others.
Clients ought to guarantee that all administrations, programmed dialling hardware, or different kinds of gear that are modified with 1 in addition to 10-digit phone numbers perceive the new 929 zone code as a legitimate region code. A few models are life-wellbeing frameworks, fax machines, Internet dial-up numbers, caution and security frameworks, security doors, speed dialers, cell phone contact records, call-sending settings, voice message administrations and comparative capacities. Entrepreneurs and others should check their business writing material, publicizing materials, individual checks and individual or pet ID labels to guarantee the region code is remembered for their phone number.
For more data, visit http://www.askpsc.com/askpsc/phone/, or call 1-800 Verizon (837-4966).
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