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Customer Service: 610-826-6650 • Business Office: 610-826-2115 • Repair Service: 610-826-3444 • Gilbert Office: 610-826-9321 392 465 Delaware Avenue • Palmerton, PA 18071 • www.ptelco.com
From the We Love
Manager’s Desk: Our Hometown
Dear Valued Customer,
Phone Feature Mauser Mill at 470 Delaware Avenue REMINDER
In the age of social distancing, meeting face-to-face has become a rarity in the physical
world, but not the virtual one. Seeing a friendly face and hearing a familiar voice, through
the telephone and even through video, can brighten your day. of the Month: When paying your Palmerton Telephone Company
bill online, please always remember to only visit OUR
Although the Zoom video chat service has been around for years, it found its moment to website at www.ptelco.com and sign in to your e-bill
Distinctive Ringing/Call Waiting Tone
shine during the early days of the 2020 quarantine as millions of people were suddenly account located at the top of the page.
stuck at home. It’s easy to use on computers and phones, comes packed with features, and
offers solid videoconferencing quality. Even on its free tier, anyone can enjoy unlimited
one-on-one talk or host live video chats with as many as 100 participants for as long as 40
minutes. Longer sessions with multiple participants will require one of Zoom’s subscription Provides special identification for calls
plans.
received from telephone numbers that you
Once the de facto videoconferencing solution for businesses worldwide, Microsoft’s specify. You create a screening list through
Skype now faces increased competition from a wave of upstarts like Zoom and even its an interactive dialing sequence. When a
own Microsoft Teams. Still, Skype’s longstanding reputation as a dependable video chat
call is received from one of the numbers on
service means that many people are familiar with it and may already be actively using it, so
connecting with people may be simpler than lesser known options. your list, you are alerted with a distinctive
ringing or call waiting tone. Incoming calls
No matter how you choose to stay connected with the important people in your life, we
from telephone numbers not on your list
make it easier and better with our High Speed DSL service.
will produce a normal ringing pattern or call
Thank you for choosing Palmerton Telephone Company. We are here for you. If you waiting tone. To use this service dial *61
need any assistance or have any questions regarding your Telephone or High Speed DSL
(Tone) or 1161 (Rotary). To discontinue use
service, please give us a call or stop in.
dial *81 (Tone) or 1181 (Rotary). The cost of
Best Regards, this service is $5.00 per month.
Tim Hausman
General Manager, Palmerton Telephone Company
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Pictures and information borrowed from member contributed photos on the Love My Hometown
Palmerton PA Facebook Group.
Community
Calendar
If you’d like to see what’s
happening to benefit the
non-profit groups in our
area, visit our Community
Events Calendar
at www.ptelco.com.
Just select ‘Menu’, then
‘Community Calendar’.
Product of the Month
Palmerton Telephone High Speed DSL
FUN FACTS
Are you a Palmerton Telephone DSL customer? If not, you don’t know what • June is the month with the longest daylight
you are missing. Our High Speed DSL service is an “always on” connection hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere,
to the Internet. That means it doesn’t tie up your telephone line, and you’ll and on the other hand, June has the shortest
never get a busy signal. All you have to do is turn on your computer, log in daylight hours of the year in the Southern
and you’re online. It’s that simple. Hemisphere.
• In both common and leap years, no other
Features include: month begins on the same day of the week as
• Speeds up to 10 Mbps June.
• June has its own beetle named after it.
• Constant connection to the Internet
Called the June beetle, or June bug, it’s
• No need for an extra phone line normally only found within the months of May
and June in the United States of America.
• Experience no busy signals
• The feathery flightless ostrich’s muscular legs
• Network up to 5 computers on one connection, (router not included) are powerful enough to kill man and lion alike.
• 5 email boxes per customer with 2 GB per mailbox • There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in
any U.S. state name. You’ll find a Z (Arizona), a
• Customers receive PenTeleData Unleashed Wi-Fi Hot Spot Internet access. J (New Jersey), and even two X’s (New Mexico
and Texas) — but not a single Q.
Ready to add DSL? Call us at (610) 826-6650 before June 30, 2021 to add • Armadillo shells are bulletproof
High Speed DSL and receive a FREE MODEM and FREE INSTALLATION! • The first person convicted of speeding was
going eight mph.
• The hottest spot on the planet is in Libya.
Specifically, the hottest spot ever recorded
on Earth is El Azizia, in Libya, where a
temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit was
recorded on Sept. 13, 1922.
• You lose up to 30 percent of your taste buds
during flight. The elevation in an airplane can
have a detrimental effect on our ability to taste
things. According to a 2010 study conducted
by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Building
Physics, the dryness experienced at a high
elevation as well as low pressure reduces the
sensitivity of a person’s taste buds to sweet
and salty foods by about 30 percent.
Brain Teaser
Palmerton Telephone is giving away a $25 Gift Card to Brain Teaser | April 2021 Winner
Claude’s Creamery in Palmerton, PA.
To enter, e-mail the correct answer to jbrixius@brctv.com
Congratulations to Gina Rodrigues, of
or send a 3” x5” index card to 613 Third Street, Palmerton, PA 18071.
Please include your name, address, daytime telephone number (to call Lehighton, PA. Gina was the winner of
only if you win), and the Brain Teaser answer. a $25 Gift Card to Claude’s Creamery in
All entries must be received by 06/20/21. Palmerton, PA.
Good Luck! Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut
me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
Answer: The number 8. On its side, it looks
A woman stands on one side of a river, her dog on the other. There
like an infinity sign. Cut in half, it looks like
is no bridge. The woman calls her dog, who immediately crosses
two zeros.
the river without getting wet. How did the dog do it?
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