This InfoSheet describes how on-campus students can activate their telephones in order to receive calls in their rooms and make calls from their rooms. To use this number in the residence halls, students need to activate their telephones in their residence hall jacks so their numbers will ring there. For undergraduate students living off campus, their BC phone number will serve as a voice mail box where they can receive messages. Until you activate your telephone in your jack, you will only be able to dial on-campus numbers, and anyone who calls you will be directly connected to your voice mail box instead of your telephone.
Activation only takes a few minutes and is very simple to do.
A simple, inexpensive desk phone is sufficient for use in the residence halls. Activating your telephone Plug your phone into your phone jack. The phone jack is part of the EagleNet box on your wall. Plug the phone into the jack with the picture of a phone above it. Follow the voice prompts.