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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...
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...
James O'Shea, Harvard's newly appointed telecommunications manager, said that the extra charge is due to Harvard's new Centrex phone system. O'Shea said federal regulations require an extra charge for Centrex listings. "The Harvard telephone office can't do anything about it," he said. O'Shea worked for the telephone company until he was hired by Harvard last Spring...
...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...