Word: centrex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard students can get a refund on their telephone installation fees if they live in a room occupied by summer school students who had the centrex system installed last summer...
...Sluben, supervisor for the New England Telephone Company, said yesterday that the telephone company made an "error" in charging students the full installation fees for rooms where centrex phones had already been installed over the summer...
Under the new Centrex plan, Sluben explained, students will pay fifty cents every year once the phone has been placed in a room for an original installation fee. The fifty cents charge will cover having the phone turned on from a central office...
Radcliffe Buildings and Grounds had originally ordered telephones limited to the Centrex system. The phone company "erroneously" installed the long-distance phones, said Jim O'Shea, manager of communications for the University...
...Centrex system will save students money next year, O'Shea said, by reducing the installation charge at the beginning of each year from $7 to 50 cents...