Telephone facilities being repaired-UPDATED

By Staff on Oct. 20, 2009, 2:27 p.m.

Repairs have been completed and telephone service has been restored as of 2:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Crews are working to repair a problem with the telephone facilities connecting the University to the public network. Until the problem is corrected, there will be limited circuits available to make or receive calls to or from non-University numbers.

Those calling the University may get a busy signal, or a recording saying that they have reached a nonworking number. Callers are encouraged to use cell phones until the problem is corrected.

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