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The land line is dead long live VOIP, at least for White Pine County Government offices.
After a month of startup glitches the entire White Pine County telephone system has been switched over to Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP).
Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms frequently encountered and often used synonymously with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, and broadband phone.
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The steps involved in originating a VoIP telephone call are signaling and media channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signal, encoding, packetization, and transmission as Internet Protocol (IP) packets over a packet-switched network. On the receiving side, similar steps (usually in the reverse order) such as reception of the IP packets, decoding of the packets and digital-to-analog conversion reproduce the original voice stream.
White Pine along with Eureka county are the only Nevada counties to switch to the relatively new technology. cost savings are estimated to be in the thousands if not tens of thousands each year.
The switch did however necessitate new phone numbers for most county offices.
The new telephone numbers are listed below.
Ambulance Billing Office : 775-293-6501
Building & Planning Department : 775-293-6547
Commission Office : 775-293-6561
Cooperative Extension : 775 293-6599
County Assessor : 775-293-6542
County Clerk : 775-293-6509
County District Attorney : 775-293-6565
Finance Department : 775-293-6508
County Fire District : 775-293-6503
County Library : 775-293-6900
County Recorder : 775-293-6507
County Treasurer : 775-293-6506
District Court #1 : 775-293-6550
District Court #2 : 775-293-6560
Economic Development Office : 775-293-6592
Ely Justice Court : 775-293-6540
Emergency Medical Services : 775-293-6502
Human Resources : 775-293-6596
Juvenile Probation Office : 775-293-6587
Nuclear Waste Project Office : 775-293-6505
Emergency Management Office : 775-293-6500
Public Health Nurse : 775-293-6558
Road Department : 775-293-6541
Sheriff’s Department : 775-289-8808
Social Services : 775-293-6528
