Students

Resources for Residence Hall Students

Get Connected!
Spring 2013

Telephone and Internet services are amenities which are included with the price of your room.

Internet Service

• To obtain Internet service, please refer to the Setting Up Your Residence Hall Computer for Internet Access web site.
  
  You can also contact the Help Desk.

Telephone Service

• Temple’s telephone service enables you to:
  
  - Receive incoming calls
  - Make free five-digit internal campus calls
  - Make emergency 911 calls (press 9-911)
  - Use a prepaid calling card to make local, toll-free, suburban, long-distance,
    and international calls
  
  
• To confirm your telephone number, dial #*113 from your phone. You will hear your location code and 4-digit extension, e.g. 8-xxxx. Your complete phone number is 215-777-xxxx.
  
  
• Use the Get Connected web site to request voice mail service and look up your phone number.
  
  
• If you have a broken phone jack or Ethernet jack, call 4-HELP or 215-204-7722.
  
  
• Use Temple’s phone service to:
  - Call off campus: 9 +1, then follow the instructions on your calling card
  - Access voice mail: *5
  - Contact Campus Police: 1-1234
  - Contact Philadelphia Police: 9-911

• Learn how to use your residence hall telephone.
  
  

General Residence Hall Information

For more information about the residence halls, see the Temple University Housing and Residential Life web site and Facebook page.