06-01-94 OSU adds new telephone exchange to serve students

OHIO STATE WILL ADD NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGE TO SERVE STUDENTS

     COLUMBUS -- Beginning in mid-June, most telephones for
undergraduate students living on the Columbus campus of The Ohio
State University will be given a new exchange, 688.

     As a result, University Hospitals will have more numbers
available in the 293 exchange.  Until now, the 293 exchange has
been split between the hospitals and residence halls.

     Karen Patterson, manager of customer relations for UNITS,
the university's telephone system, said undergraduate residence
halls will be switched to the 688 exchange, freeing about 4,000
numbers on the 293 exchange for use by University Hospitals.

     One exception will be about 1,100 graduate students,
primarily in Jones Graduate Tower, and non-traditional students
at Buckeye Village who are being asked to make the change
voluntarily.  Some will keep the old numbers because they have
resumes out or they have had those numbers for several years,
Patterson said.

     For all telephone exchanges for the university, callers from
campus phones need dial only the last five digits of any number
for on-campus calls.

     For students changing to the new exchange, the last four
digits of their phone number will remain the same.  For example,
a student number of 293-4321 will change to 688-4321 and will
dialed from campus phones as 8-4321.

     The university's 292 exchange, which serves nearly all
offices on the Columbus campus, will not change.  Each of the
university's three exchanges for the Columbus campus has nearly
10,000 possible numbers, Patterson said.
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Contact: Karen Patterson, 292-9155.


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