Lately there have been some questions about the public pay phones
downstairs in the basement (or “concourse level”, if you prefer). After talking with a few different people, I found out that
there are different ideas of the phones, and that I was totally
clueless about them. So, thanks to Heather, I now have an official
diagnosis of the public phone situation.

The pay phones downstairs don’t work. They haven’t for about a year. I
tried them myself today and all I got was a buzzing sound but no dial
tone. They are supposed to have been removed from their prime real
estate on the walls downstairs, but that major construction project is
still pending.

In contrast to these nonfunctional monoliths of telecommunications,
there is also one “campus phone” downstairs in one of the booths. I
tried it this morning and was able not only to get a dial tone and call
other phones on campus, but pushing 7 first did indeed get me an
external line with which I was able to call someone off campus.

Summary: The payphones don’t work, but the campus phone does, and can even call off campus.

(Sure, I could have said that right at the beginning, but it wouldn’t have been as interesting, would it? have?)

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