Telecom For Dummies

Chapter List

Chapter 7: Ordering Regular Phone Lines and New Long-Distance Service

Chapter 8: Ordering Dedicated Service

Chapter 9: Ordering Toll-Free Service

Chapter 10: Activating Your Dedicated Circuit and Toll-Free Numbers

In this part . . .

In Part III, you discover everything you need to know about ordering phone service. You may be ordering another phone line for your fax machine, a toll-free number for your customer service department, or a dedicated circuit for your new office, but no matter what you want to do, all of the information you need is in this part. The provisioning system for all of these items could come to a grinding halt for a number of reasons, so you need to know how to resolve any delays and get those phones up and ringing. The bonus round of this part is the Chapter 10, which covers the steps necessary to activate dedicated phone service and toll-free numbers.