Word: centrex
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...Columbia Centrex...
Robert McGuire, local manager of New England Telephone Company's Cambridge office, said the cause of the disorder was a machine failure in the electronic switching office which handles the centrex system...
...added that most of the students in Thayer House found centrex systems installed when they arrived last Fall...
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...
Miss Bohan, service representative for the phone company, attributed the error in billing to a computer mix-up, saying that the changeover in students from the summer school to the winter session was so rapid that the computer could not keep up with where the centrex phones had been installed over he summer...