What are the benefits of land-line telephones?
• When a student calls 911 from a land-line, emergency personnel can see the student’s location, which is essential if the student becomes incapacitated. Exact location cannot currently be traced from a cell phone, even with the use of global positioning (GPS). • With a land-line students can use the “Door King” system to buzz visitors into the building. That functionality isn’t currently available with cell phones. Issues of concern include the fact that the Door King system would need to make long distance calls, but more importantly there is no easy way for the Door King system to tell if the cell phone is physically nearby. Students should obviously not be able to buzz visitors in from back home or out of State. • With all students having local phone numbers, none must pay for long distance calls to call others. Currently many students have cell phones from back home with strange and different area codes. If you don’t yourself have a cell phone with a nationwide plan, calls to thos
