Wheat State’s Hello Central Special Edition 2016

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What 9-1-1 Centers
Want You to Know
In order for 9-1-1 centers to better
serve their communities, it’s impor-
tant for citizens to understand the
basics of 9-1-1 and how to properly
make an emergency call. Please
review the following tips and share
them with family members:
• Call from a landline whenever
possible. That way, the physi-
cal address associated with the
phone is provided to 9-1-1 by
the telephone service provider,
which is especially important in
cases where the caller is unable
to speak due to a medical event.
• Listen carefully to the call taker’s
questions and provide detailed
information as it is requested.
• Attempt to speak as clearly and
as calmly as possible.
• If in doubt as to whether some-
one is in distress or something is
suspicious, call 9-1-1.
• Make sure your children know
your home address and teach
them how and when to use 9-1-1.
• Create a safety profile in a system
such as to provide
relevant information about you
and your family to emergency
responders.
To sign up for landline service,
call Wheat State at 800-442-6835.
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Protect Your Services and Your Wallet
You can guard against budget-busting repairs to your interior phone wiring
and high speed Internet equipment with Wheat State’s SERVICE GUARD
for only $4.95 per month. SERVICE GUARD includes all the benefits of WIRE
GUARD—diagnosis, repair and replacement parts for interior phone wires—
and adds that same protection for any high speed Internet wiring and equipment
purchased fromWheat State.*
As a SERVICE GUARD customer, your calls will take priority, even after hours.
We’ll also show you how to get the most out of your equipment and make sure
your Wheat State services are trouble-free. SERVICE GUARD can save you big
money, since without it, you’ll pay a $25 trip fee plus $75 per hour for labor and
up to $125 for equipment replacement.
Sign up now for SERVICE GUARD
or WIRE GUARD and start
enjoying more peace of mind.
*The plan does not cover high speed
equipment purchased elsewhere or include
damage caused by natural disaster, flood,
earthquake, riot, acts of war, gross negligence,
willful damage, vandalism or fire.
Spring into Action
Tired of being bombarded with unwant-
ed phone calls and junk mail? Take
action by registering with the sites below.
Do Not Call
www.donotcall.gov
The Federal Trade Commission says that
more than 172 million phone numbers
have been placed on the National Do
Not Call Registry since it began in 2003.
If you’re not one of them, or if you’ve
changed or added phone numbers since
you originally registered, you may want
to visit this site. You can enter up to three
phone numbers (landline or wireless) in
the online form.
Do Not Write
If you’d like to receive less advertising
mail at home, you can use DMAchoice™,
an online tool developed by the Direct
Marketing Association. This tool divides
direct mail into four categories: Credit
Offers, Catalogs, Magazine Offers, and
Other Mail Offers. You can request to
start or stop receiving mail from individual
companies within each category—or
from an entire category at once.
Do Not Send Credit Offers
Spending way too much time shredding
credit card offers you get in the mail?
is a centralized
service to accept and process requests
from consumers to opt-out of these credit
card offers. The service is a joint venture
among the Consumer Credit Reporting
Companies of Equifax, Experian, Innovis,
and TransUnion. Once you provide your
information, your name will be removed
from inclusion on firm offer lists provided
by all four companies.