Margaret
We are converting our entire company to “Lync” a computer based phone/meeting tool. However, we are keeping “hard wired” phones in labs and in key areas for emergency purposes. Hope this helps.
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We did install on-campus phones in our labs. On our campus, all emergency calls (“911” calls) need to be routed through our university police department (they are actual NYS police officers).
If you dial 911 from your cell phone, you are connected to the Monroe County 911 dispatch center, who doesn’t know where Smith Hall is. They know street address, not building numbers. This leads to wasted time
for the emergency responders to get to us.
If you pick up a wired phone and call 911, you are routed to our UP emergency number, and they will either come and investigate or immediately call for an ambulance and then come investigate (depends on the severity
of the situation).
The other reason we did this is that in times of natural disaster, cell phone service is sometimes knocked out, so inundated that you can’t get your call through.
Elizabeth Gregory
Laboratory Manager
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The College at Brockport
224 Smith Hall
Brockport, NY 14420
(585) 395-2210
Greetings,
We are designing lab space and have run into the question of a hard wired phone? How many out there are still doing this? Would you recommend it? Suggestions and ideas are welcome.
Thanks,
Margaret Smallbrock
Campus Environmental Health and Safety Manager
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East St. Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701-3995
