[Tang-residents] Fwd: Telephone Service Announcement

[Michael Collins]

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>Special Announcement from Housing and IS&T
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>During 2005, Information Services and Technology (IS&T) Telephony Services 
>responded to a request from Housing to reduce the cost of telephone 
>services in the dorms by offering two levels of phone service.  The basic 
>phone service, included in the room rate, allowed for placing and 
>receiving only campus calls.  Students could elect to pay for full 
>service, which included receiving off campus calls, placing unlimited 
>local calls and voice mail.
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>While, in general, people understood the reason for the changes, the 
>inability to receive off-campus calls generated concern from the broadest 
>spectrum of the community, including students, parents, faculty, Campus 
>Police, as well as Residential Life and house managers.  Throughout the 
>fall semester, IS&T explored options to respond to the community's input.
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>As a result of that work, Housing and IS&T are pleased to announce that, 
>effective Registration Day, the basic dorm service will include direct 
>inward dialing, and callers from off-campus phones will be able to reach 
>you directly on your dorm phone.
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>Housing is pleased to be able to work with IS&T in making this change. If 
>you have any questions about the change, or dorm phone service in general, 
>please feel free to contact dorm-phone at mit.edu.
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>Karen A. Nilsson
>Associate Dean and Director, Housing
>Office of the Dean for Student Life (DSL)
>Massachusetts Institute  of Technology
>Bldg. E19-429
>77 Massachusetts Ave.
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>(617) 252-1505
>Web Address:  http://web.mit.edu/housing/
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