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As cellular technology advances, University of Montana ponders future of dorm telephones

The high number of University of Montana dorm residents who own cell phones, the low number who use land lines in their rooms and the cost to provide those lines has UM’s residence life director wondering if the lines should someday be offered only as an option. It currently costs UM $310,000 a year to supply phone service to approximately 1,800 dorm rooms.

The phone in the University of Montana third-floor dorm room rang and rang.

No one ever answered.

Finally, the hall secretary who needed to get ahold of the student tracked down his cell-phone number.

But because the student was from out of state, it took a long-distance phone call to talk to someone who lived on the third floor.

It got residence life director Ron Brunell, whose phone bill – not his personal one, but what UM pays to offer phone service in approximately 1,800 dorm rooms – is $310,000 a year, wondering:

By VINCE DEVLIN of the Missoulian

Full story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/02/10/news/local/news02.txt

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