Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Partial Telephone Outage Tonight 9:00 PM

A message from UT TYLER EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS (PATRIOTALERT)

University Community:

Tonight, Wednesday October 2, the University is conducting a telephone system upgrade. This will require a temporary shutdown of inbound and outbound calls for a period of time beginning at 9:00 p.m. A 3-hour time frame has been allotted for the process but we anticipate it will actually be a much shorter time period.

During the outage, from campus phones, you will not be able to dial outbound. However, you will still be able to reach on-campus parties by dialing campus 4-digit extensions.

How will this affect your ability to reach the campus police department or other emergency services?

1) You WILL NOT be able to dial 9-1-1 from a campus telephone during the shutdown.
2) You WILL be able to reach the UT Tyler Police Department from a campus phone by dialing the 7300 extension.
3) Emergency blue light phones WILL be functional during the shutdown.
4) Elevator alarms WILL be functional.
5) The shutdown WILL NOT affect campus housing telephone systems.
 
The Police Department will utilize a cellular phone during the shutdown. We will be able to dial 9-1-1, make outgoing calls, and receive incoming calls on the cellular phone. If you need to call the UT Tyler Police Department using your cellular phone, the number to reach us is (903) 520-7404.

When all systems are back online we will send an email to the campus community.

Thank you,

Mike Medders


Mike Medders, Chief of Police
The University of Texas at Tyler 3900 University Blvd.
Tyler, Texas 75799
(903) 566-7300
mmedders@uttyler.edu
www.uttyler.edu/police

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