New Jersey landline checker › Freehold
Notice on file, not copperFRHDNJFHThe Freehold office (FRHDNJFH) is named in a Verizon network change notice dated January 31, 2024, with an implementation date on or after August 1, 2024. It is not a copper retirement notice. Check a number below to see which office serves it.
We keep only the first six digits of a number you check (the prefix), never the whole number.
Network change · Switch being retired here
Verizon is retiring a tandem switch and moving its call-routing work between carriers to another tandem.
Network change
Verizon is replacing discontinued fiber terminal equipment (MC-ONT) used for voice, video and data in multi-tenant buildings; the notice says the same services continue on the new equipment.
Verizon is retiring a tandem switch and moving its call-routing work between carriers to another tandem. It is not a copper retirement notice. Read the notice to see what changes.
Verizon New Jersey numbers that start with these prefixes are served from the Freehold office (FRHDNJFH), according to the prefix data.
In 7 of these prefixes, some thousand-blocks belong to other companies. A number in one of those blocks is not a Verizon line from this office; the number check above tells them apart.
Towns and rate centers: Freehold. Prefix data: Local Calling Guide.
If your line runs over Verizon copper in an office on a retirement notice, it will have to move to another service. What to do depends on what the line runs.
Verizon's New Jersey copper retirement notice names the alternatives itself: “VoIP service from Verizon or a cable company, or fixed or mobile wireless service from multiple providers including Verizon Wireless.”
The kinds of replacement to ask about:
Fire alarm communicators are inspected, and whatever replaces the copper line has to be accepted by your fire alarm service company and your local fire official.
Ask your fire alarm service company now which replacement they support for your panel. Common choices are a cellular communicator or a dual-path communicator that uses cellular and the internet.
Keep the paperwork that shows the change for your next inspection.
Elevator emergency phones are inspected too. Ask your elevator service company now which replacement keeps the phone working and passes inspection.
A common choice is a cellular unit made for elevator phones that keeps the existing phone in the car.
Test a call from the elevator after the change.
A fax machine can keep working on a cellular landline-replacement device or on an internet phone line, but not every service handles fax well.
Send and receive a few test faxes on the new connection before the copper line is gone. An online fax service is another option.
Ask your alarm company whether your panel can report over a cellular communicator or the internet. Many panels can take a cellular module in place of the phone-line dialer.
Ask the alarm company to send a test signal to the monitoring center after the change.
Gate and door phones can often keep the existing unit on a cellular landline-replacement device, or be replaced with a cellular or internet intercom.
After the change, check that a call from the gate reaches the right phones and that the gate or door still opens.
Card terminals and ATMs that dial out over a phone line need a new connection. Most current machines can use the internet or cellular.
Ask your payment processor or ATM provider which connection your machine supports and how to switch it.
A home phone can move to a phone on a cellular landline-replacement device, to a cable or internet phone line, or to a mobile phone.
Medical alert devices that use a home phone line may need a cellular or internet version. Ask the device company before the copper is gone, and press the test button after the change.