TERRE HAUTE — With most students now using cell phones, Indiana State University officials plan to remove telephone service from individual residence hall rooms.
Campus residential life director Rex Kendall says usage of residence hall land lines has plummeted over the past few years as cell phone use has soared nationwide.
Until now, each residence hall room at the Terre Haute campus has had a telephone and students paid for the service as part of their room and board fees. Students could make local calls, while long-distance calls had to be charged to a credit/calling card.
But in recent years, Kendall said student use of residence hall telephones for long distance calls has become "almost nonexistent."
At Ball State University, the room telephone service continues despite the increasing number of students moving from land line to cell phones, Mark Watters, director of telephone and postal services said in a Ball State Daily News article last year.
Watters said as of 2009 Ball State had about 9,000 land lines on campus, but did not know how many students use them.
He said cell phones have affected student use of land lines, but staying with the land line system makes sense because "it's always there, it always works and it's free."
"Obviously the immigration is becoming more and more towards cell phones," Watters said. "But the reality is we don't want to have to increase fees or any other additional costs to students, faculty and staff. We're being conservative in moving away from it because what we have right now works very well."
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