{"id":352,"date":"2012-08-25T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=352"},"modified":"2023-12-12T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:15:33","slug":"long-distance-telephone-service-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Long Distance Telephone Service Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 1, 2012, Simmons faculty and staff will no longer need to enter a PIN code to dial long distance from a Simmons telephone.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, Simmons Technology selected a new vendor and plan for our telephone service. In addition to eliminating the need for PIN codes, the new plan provides local, long distance, and international calling at a significantly reduced cost to the college.<\/p>\n<p>To make long distance calls within the US and Canada, press 9, then 1 followed by the area code and 7 digit number (for example: 9-1-(xxx)-xxx-xxxx).<\/p>\n<p>To make calls outside of North America, press 9, then enter the international access code 011, the country code and local number (for example: 9-011-(xx)-xx-xxxx-xxxx). Please note that international calling will be available only to departments that have established a need for this service. If you do not have international calling and you need access, you can submit a request through the Service Desk.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact the Service Desk at 617-521-2222 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/servicedesk.simmons.edu\">servicedesk.simmons.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of September 1, 2012, Simmons faculty and staff will no longer need to enter a PIN code to dial long distance from a Simmons telephone. This summer, Simmons Technology selected a new vendor and plan for our telephone service. In addition to eliminating the need for PIN codes, the new plan provides local, long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,243,10,244],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-202","tag-243","tag-phone","tag-phone-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}