MADISON, Wis. — The dormitories on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus will soon be following the trend of other college campuses around the state in ditching their landline phones.
After an extensive two years of surveying students on their phone usage habits, university officials said that the $400,000 a year to operate the phones isn’t necessary. They said that about 98 percent of students rely on their cell phone instead of their free dorm phone.