<p>How are the long distance charges handled on the landlines in the dorms, or is it even available at all? Basically, how do you make a long distance call from a dorm room landline?</p>
<p>[ISC</a> Networking and Telecommunications: Voice Rates](<a href=“Penn Information Systems & Computing | Information Systems & Computing”>Penn Information Systems & Computing | Information Systems & Computing)</p>
<p>when you dial a long-distance call from a dorm phone, you enter your own 6-digit phone access code - this ensures that the charges are billed to you and not to your roommates.</p>
<p>other than that, regular phone line service charges are $36 / semester inclusive.</p>
<p>[Rates</a> & Billing - (STS)](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/sts/support/rates.html]Rates”>http://www.upenn.edu/sts/support/rates.html)</p>
<p>Why not just use a cell phone where it doesn’t cost extra to call any US number (unless you went over your minutes).</p>
<p>[ISC</a> Networking and Telecommunications: Voice Rates](<a href=“Penn Information Systems & Computing | Information Systems & Computing”>Penn Information Systems & Computing | Information Systems & Computing)
[Service</a> Basics STS](<a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/sts/services/index.html]Service”>http://www.upenn.edu/sts/services/index.html)</p>
<p>Thanks tenebrousfire,</p>
<p>Can you tell me what the minute rates are when you use your 6 digit phone access code?</p>
<p>Ok, I just saw CDN_dancer’s post. 10 cents a minute. Thanks.</p>
<p>We didn’t even plug in our dorm landline phone last year.</p>
<p>I don’t know <em>anyone</em> who plugged in a dorm landline phone in the past 3 years.</p>
<p>Except for the one time we snuck into peoples rooms in Hill and plugged in their phones and made prank calls to them. Fun times.</p>
<p>The usage of landline dorm phones hovers around 0% these days.</p>
<p>Everyone uses a wireless phone now–and on about every wireless plan for the last decade, long-distance throughout the United States has been included as a free feature. There is no way a landline would be cheaper.</p>
<p>Even for phone calls to the other side of the globe, the most common solution is Skype or another VoIP solution.</p>
<p>I haven’t had a landline phone in any room in all my 5 years at Penn.</p>
<p>yeah my landline sat unused for the last 2 years</p>