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All Student calls go out over Concordia's unified telephone system. This year is different than years past. Concordia University owns a large phone switch that services not only faculty and staff, but also all the students living on campus. Now the entire CUW family can communicate with each other using four-digit dialing and Voice Mail. Many other great features have been included such as: Call Waiting, Caller ID, 3-Way Calling and Call Transfer. The best part of the Concordia Telephone System is that all of these features are FREE. In addition, Concordia Telecom gives you FREE connection charge, no monthly Base Fee, and Other rates and charges are listed below.

In years past Ameritech dealt with each student individually, no different than with your off campus friends. This meant a yearly connection charge of $47.00, monthly charges, and charges for anything "extra."

Lets compare the numbers!

	In Years Past	CUW Telecom
Monthly Base Fee	$ 10.37	$ 0.00
Call Waiting	5.00	0.00
Voice Mail	4.95	0.00
Caller ID	7.00	0.00
3-Way Calling	5.00	0.00
FCC Charge	3.50	0.00
911 Charge	0.17	0.00
Total (monthly)	$ 35.99	$ 0.00

Rates: Local Calls are $.05 per call. Long Distance calls are billed at $.10 per minute, Extended Community Calls (ECC) at $.05 per minute, ISP Data Calls* are $.01 per minute, and Directory Assistance, at $.95 per call. Contact the Telecommunications for International Rates. (Ext. 2345).

*Data Calls are calls to any off campus internet provider(ISP) such as AOL, Execpc, Juno, etc.... These calls are billed at $.01 per minute to cover costs we incur for these calls.