The Telecommunication Services budget is to pay for the telephone service on campus, not the data dialup services. So far, we have been able to expand this mission and buy dialup hardware, software, maintenance, and communication lines that make up our dialup services. We are reaching the end, however, of what this budget can absorb and must find alternative funding sources. We are continuing to investigate other funding sources including a substantial request from the state for a specific account to pay for dialup services. Unfortunately, without a proper funding source, we cannot continue to operate a dialup service adequate to support all of our users.
All options are still open.
But, without a clear, on going funding source, we cannot afford additional services at this time. This is not a trivial or easy question to answer because of the four generations of dialup equipment that SMSU has gone through and because of the timing of the spurts of growth. Rather than research old purchase orders for equipment we no longer use, we decided to pull together information on the current services only. No additional Wyrick funds, computer usage fees, or tuition of any kind has funded any of the expenditures below, and these only include the costs of what is currently in service. Some figures are currently estimates that will be replaced with actual values once the purchase orders are tabulated.