You will be given an extension number corresponding to your room number. Other students can call that number directly. Calls from outside the University will be by numbers in the 0870 series charged at national rate. The extension and 0870 number are linked to particular rooms. If you change rooms you will have to change phone numbers.
Every phone has a voice mailbox to receive unanswered calls.
You can check your messages from your own phone or from any other phone. Internal calls are free. Calls via a modem to the University academic network are free. Examples of call charges are shown below. There is no registration charge, no charge for your voice mailbox, and no charge for calls to the ntl Customer Call Centre.