Controlling those crazy college phone bills; New service gives each student an individual bill, lets parents impose a cap.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 1996--College students haggling over dorm room phone bills ("Who called Seattle for 240 minutes?!") and parents wishing for a way to control their children's calling soon may be problems of the past. SUNY SUNY - State University of New York Buffalo and Regis College This article is about the college in Massachusetts. For the undergraduate college of the coeducational Jesuit university in Colorado, see Regis University. For the Jesuit college at University of Toronto, see Regis College, U of T. in Weston, Mass., are among the first schools to take advantage of services from NYNEX NYNEX New York-New England & X for the Unknown (Telephone Company) NYNEX New York Network Exchange and Telesoft Corp. that provide each student with an individual Personal Identification Number (PIN) for billing and allow parents to impose a threshold on the student's phone chats. A cooperative effort by NYNEX and Phoenix-based Telesoft Corp., Campus Services offers colleges and universities a telephone system and individual billing for students. NYNEX provides the school with Digital Centrex Service, a telephone system whose equipment is housed in NYNEX's switching centers. Centrex offers capabilities including voice messaging Using voice mail as an alternative to electronic mail, in which voice messages are intentionally recorded, not because the recipient was not available. , call transfer and call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. . Telesoft activates and deactivates PINs and bills the students for their telephone service. Telesoft also will monitor student usage to help protect against fraud and provide a free student help line available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "With Campus Services, students never have to worry about dividing their phone bills among roommates or suitemates, because every student receives an individual monthly bill," said Russ Kohn, NYNEX director of applications development. When calling off-campus, outside the Centrex, students must punch in their PIN. Students also can make calls from anywhere in the U.S. using a Telesoft access code and their PIN. Since students can't make calls without using their PIN, parents can relax knowing they're not paying for someone else's phone charges, Kohn said. Parents may choose to have the invoice sent to them directly and even place a credit limit on their student's account. Kohn said this control helps protect students from overuse overuse Health care The common use of a particular intervention even when the benefits of the intervention don't justify the potential harm or cost–eg, prescribing antibiotics for a probable viral URI. Cf Misuse, Underuse. of toll services and guard against fraud and unauthorized use of their PIN. NYNEX is a global communications and media corporation that provides a full range of services in the northeastern United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and high-growth markets around the world, including the United Kingdom, Thailand, Gibraltar, Greece, Indonesia, the Philippines, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The corporation is a leader in telecommunications, wireless communications, directory publishing and video entertainment and information services See Information Systems. . You can receive fax copies of recent NYNEX news releases, free of charge, 24 hours a day. Call 1-800-331-1214. An automated system will provide you with instructions. Telesoft Corp. designs, distributes, installs, and maintains telecommunications systems that provide telephone billing and other telecommunications services to higher-education, corporate and governmental agency markets. Telesoft is currently administering programs at more than 100 universities and colleges nationwide. CONTACT: NYNEX New England: Betsy Bottino Arenella, 617/743-3677 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of :Cliff Lee, 518/396-1095 |
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