Glendive moves to drop old phone lines for modern VoIP system

“We need to go to the cloud.”That is what Councilman Rhett Coon said in July 2025 when Glendive City Hall’s administrative staff was experiencing technical difficulties with an antiquated phone system. Officials are now considering pulling the plug on the old tech and moving to a modernized Voice over Internet Protocol system for consistency across departments.During Tuesday’s meeting of the city’s Finance, Utilities, Property and Recreation Committee, Mayor Deb Dion introduced a recommendation from an internal ad hoc committee to hire Univision Computers, a Missoula-based IT company, to establish the new VoIP system.“It was unanimous that we go with Univision,” Dion said.The current phone system across City of Glendive departments is not so universal, meaning there are multiple Mid-Rivers accounts for different departments and each one is billed separately.Jon Senner, Glendive’s director of operations, explained a new VoIP system would ultimately put every city phone under one…

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