State Telephone Policies

State Telephone Network Policies

The state's telecommunications facilities are provided for the conduct of state business.  In addition to state business, the state's telecommunications facilities may be used by state employees and officials for local and long distance calls to latch-key children, teachers, doctors, day care centers, baby sitters, and family members to inform them of unexpected schedule changes and other essential personal business.  The use of the state's telecommunications facilities for essential personal business must be kept to a minimum and not interfere with the conduct of state business.  Essential personal long distance calls must be collect, charged to a personal third-party number, or charged to a personal credit card.

The state's telecommunications facilities include any state-owned, leased, contracted for, operated, or maintained telecommunications equipment, services, or facilities, including private branch exchanges, telephone key systems, teleconferencing systems, local and long-distance telecommunications circuits, cellular telephones, data communications equipment, video capabilities, land mobile radio equipment, telephone credit cards, facsimile equipment, and voice mail.

All in-state and out-of-state calls made on the State Telecommunications Network (STN) are billed to the originating state telephone number.

Authority: 2-17-301 Montana Code Annotated