Phone Usage

Because of the University's billing limitations, each telephone can only be charged to one FRAS center (see FRAS section in this document). Faculty FRAS centers will be charged for equipment and local calls for the faculty member and his/her technical staff and visitors. Equipment and local calls for secretaries and RI graduate students will be charged to the Institute. If personal calls have been made, you are expected to pay for them each month when you get your phone bill.

Following are some instructions for dialing your phone to bill to other accounting centers:

Outside local and long distance calls (billed to FRAS center)
From all locations: dial 9 + 1 + area code (if needed) and the 7-digit number. Long distance calls will be routed automatically and optimally over the most cost-effective facilities (currently Sprint).

Direct billing of calls to research centers or other discretionary centers (CDAR)
Those toll and long distance calls that are directly related to research may be charged to a research center by dialing as follows:

1. dial CDAR access code "119" (you will hear confirmation tone followed by dial tone)
2. dial 6- digit CMU accounting center number (Example 1-11111) (you will hear dial tone)
3. dial "9"
4. dial "1 "+ desired telephone number including area code (if needed)

Questions regarding phones can be answered by Jim Skees, x8.7653, skees@cs.