Robins moving to seven-digit dialing plan Published Sept. 10, 2010 ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Robins is preparing to implement a mandatory Air Force-wide change in the way workers dial one another on the telephone. The current five-digit dialing method used on Robins will be converted to a seven-digit dialing method, mirroring the way local calls are made from home. The new seven-digit dialing plan standardizes telephone switches across the Air Force, making management of telephone platforms cheaper and easier. Currently, calls to on-base extensions are dialed using a five-digit phone number. Starting Sept. 19, calls to on-base phones from other on-base phones will require callers to dial a seven-digit phone number. Robins has a dialing conflict with the current commercial prefixes (222, 926 and 327), so the base will apply DSN prefixes (472, 497 and 468). Reprogramming numbers for faxes, modems, and secure phones will be the responsibility of the user. This only applies to on-base dialing. Commercial calls from off-base will continue to use the traditional commercial prefixes. The off-base commercial and DSN dialing scheme will remain the same. For more information on the new dialing plan, contact the Help Desk at 6-4357. NEW SEVEN-DIGIT DIALING PLAN: 222 now dialed 2-XXXX, will change to 472-XXXX 327, now dialed 7-XXXX, will change to 497-XXXX 926, now dialed 6-XXXX, will change to 468-XXXX