
Jeremy McCarthy
Team leader, Information Technology Services Systems
FORESTRY Tasmania is embracing new technology that will result in significant cost savings, greater flexibility and an expanded range of state of the art communications services.
Forestry Tasmania’s Hobart head office general contact number will remain the same, 1800 FOREST (1800 367 378) within Tasmania and (03) 6235 8333 outsite the State, However as a result of the changeover the phone numbers of all staff based in Hobart now have the prefix 03 6235. Some staff members’ extension numbers have also changed.
The Huon District new general contact number at Geeveston is 6295 7111 and the new general contact number for Bass at Scottsdale is 6350 6466.
At the Forestry Tasmania Nursery and Seed Centre at Perth the new phone number for the manager is (03) 6398 7012 and the assistant manager’s new phone number is (03) 6398 7011. The new fax number for the centre is (03) 6398 7004.
The new numbers for Mersey and Murchison will be assigned when they become part of the new system in the coming weeks.
The new Samsung IP phone system works in a similar way to Skype which allows people to make voice and video calls over the Internet.
The new system has voicemail capacity for everyone and the ability for faxes to be delivered directly as an email attachment.