Extension to Cellular

Signing Up, Fees & Billing

Extension to Cellular, or EC500 for short, is available to Cornell faculty and staff with:

a campus phone,
a cell phone, and
an account to bill.

Campus phone means any landline with service provided by CIT Network & Communication Services. This definition includes some numbers not located on the central Ithaca campus. If you are unsure if this definition includes you, please check with your unit's telecommunications coordinator.

Cell phone means any cellular phone with a valid ten-digit dialing number (area code + exchange + extension). It does not matter who provides service for your cell phone, what type of cell phone you use, or where the service is based. Be aware that any use you make of your cell phone counts towards whatever cellular minutes you are entitled to. For customers who enable EC500 for a cell phone that is not part of the local calling region, toll charges will be incurred every time the cell phone is used to answer a call. (In effect, the desk phone will be placing a long distance call to the cell phone.) Those toll charges will be billed against the customer's desk phone.

An account to bill should be no problem for anyone who meets the first requirement. The fees for EC500 will appear on your monthly campus phone bill (in the same way that AUDIX does).

For information about rates, please see the Voice & Data Rates Catalog

To sign up, your unit's telecommunications coordinator needs to send an e-mail to

ncs-os@cornell.edu

or call NCS at 4-NCS1 (4-6271). You'll need to provide your cell phone number, your campus phone number, and what kind of campus phone you have (digital or analog). If you want to talk with someone about the service, feel free to contact NCS yourself, but the actual request for service must come through your telecommunications coordinator.

NCS does EC500 activation with a software change; no one will need to come to your location.

To cancel your EC500 service, contact your telecommunications coordinator.

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