We are in the process of hiring a full time Computer Support Specialist to assist you. It will take us a few weeks to get this fully established , but after that we expect to have much better service for the campus community. The remote access dial in system to the college network has been completely upgraded and we will now offer 56K modem speed using the new V.90 standard. Many older 56K modems may also work with the system. SMC was running out of numbers in the 310 area code.
Telephone numbers are difficult to obtain.
In the future numbers assigned to SMC might be in another area code. In order to support future telecommunications growth and remain in the 310 area a large block of numbers was needed. Unfortunately GTE did not have a block of numbers in the 8000-9000 range that are old extensions were in. The only block available to us was 3000-4999. Q. I had an extension in the past that people had to dial the main number first before they could reach me.