This takes the form of 75 hours between 6am-midnight, and 90 hours between midnight and 6am. Sprint provides the on-campus modem, terminal server and phone lines needed to connect the student to the campus. Sprint uses 28.8 baud modems. Sprint may use those kiosks to provide other services. Sprint may offer dialup services to other educational institutions using the equipment placed on our campus.
Sprint pays the campus a portion of the gross income based on the number of paying accounts.
As email begins to take over the current function of the telephone, people begin to think they must be constantly connected in order to receive and reply to messages. The university can not supply enough dialup access to support this kind of use. In addition, it is arguably not in the educational mission of the campus to do so. Alternatively, the university could increase the modem pool to meet the demand. The cost of this is fairly high.