Our uni (Keele) has phones in every room with a 4 digit number and over the period I've been there (3 years) various companies have run the phones a stupid payg prices and gone bust, the current company (Keycom I think, Not sure though as I'm not in halls thankfully!) has allow local telephone numbers though instead of 0870 ones so people can call in cheaply after all the students made a fuss. The university does have a campus wide network to with a 10Mbs connection in every room, there is a 500Mb cap though (per day) and nearly every port apart from web browsing and email is blocked. However there is NTL equipment outside every hall block and a coax connection in every room too but no service to these. I tried equiring about this and got as far as finding out that the service was cut off back in the C&W or Nyex days when the uni didn't pay the bill for cabled tv or something. Shame though because if NTL could come to an agreement with the uni then the network could be reconnected and they could con money out of the students so uni wouldn't have to worry about what they were downloading!
