Lately there have been some questions about the public pay phones
\ndownstairs in the basement (or “concourse level”, if you prefer). After talking with a few different people, I found out that
\nthere are different ideas of the phones, and that I was totally
\nclueless about them. So, thanks to Heather, I now have an official
\ndiagnosis of the public phone situation.<\/p>\n
The pay phones downstairs don’t work. They haven’t for about a year. I
\ntried them myself today and all I got was a buzzing sound but no dial
\ntone. They are supposed to have been removed from their prime real
\nestate on the walls downstairs, but that major construction project is
\nstill pending.<\/p>\n
In contrast to these nonfunctional monoliths of telecommunications,
\nthere is also one “campus phone” downstairs in one of the booths. I
\ntried it this morning and was able not only to get a dial tone and call
\nother phones on campus, but pushing 7 first did indeed get me an
\nexternal line with which I was able to call someone off campus.<\/p>\n
Summary:<\/b> The payphones don’t work, but the campus phone does, and can even call off campus.<\/p>\n
(Sure, I could have said that right at the beginning, but it wouldn’t have been as interesting, would it? have?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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