Truman State University Telephone Services Making a Call When making off campus call, you must precede the number with a 9 for local calls or an 8 for long distance calls. All on campus numbers begin with 785. The same applies when dialing into a modem on-campus. Residents are allowed to use phone cards from other carriers and may place both 800 and 888 toll free calls. Most of the residence hall rooms have one wall-mounted jack.
Students are responsible for providing their own touch-tone phone.
If your telephone doesn't work, check to be sure that it is not the instrument by plugging in a different phone. If the line still doesn't work, call Telephone Services at extension 4000. The University provides basic telephone service, voice mail, and long distance access for all faculty, staff offices and students that live in the residence halls. Since this service is provided for on-campus students, those residents may not sign up with any other long distance carrier . In addition on-campus residents are prohibited from placing any 900 calls, accepting collect or third party calls, or billing any other services of the university for a call.