John Kearsing News Today

DeKALB – The decommissioning of landlines across campus is continuing with the conversion to Microsoft Teams to be tentatively completed by June. All 815-753 phone numbers are being ported from NIU’s current service provider, Frontier, to NIU’s new service provider, CallTower, which combines normal phone usage (texts, calls, etc.) with Microsoft Teams. John Kearsing, project...

NIU will be replacing the legacy phone system on campus with Microsoft Teams Voice later this year. The legacy phone system, which was installed over 35 years ago, has supported NIU’s communication needs for decades. However, the current phone switch – the device that connects calls to each other in a given area – is...