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Possibly affectedTKHONJTKThe Tuckahoe office (TKHONJTK) is listed in Verizon's Copper Retirement Notice 2022-04-A-NJ, dated January 29, 2024, with an implementation date on or after May 20, 2024. That date has passed, so lines here may already have been moved, or could be moved at any time. If it already runs over Fios fiber, or your service comes from a cable, internet-phone or mobile company, this notice may not apply to it.
We keep only the first six digits of a number you check (the prefix), never the whole number.
Copper retirement (amended)
2022-04-A-NJVerizon plans to retire the copper facilities at all remaining locations in 2 wire centers.
Copper retirement
2022-04-A-NJVerizon plans to retire the copper facilities at all remaining locations in 2 wire centers.
A copper retirement means Verizon stops offering service over the copper wires that run from this office to homes and businesses, and then stops maintaining them. Services on those wires have to move to another technology. Verizon's notices say it may require customers to move “well before the copper retirement implementation date.”
If a line here already runs over Fios fiber, or comes from a cable, internet-phone or mobile company, this notice may not apply to it. Your phone company can tell you what your line runs over.
Verizon New Jersey numbers that start with these prefixes are served from the Tuckahoe office (TKHONJTK), according to the prefix data.
In 1 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: Tuckahoe. 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.