Residence Hall Telephone Authorization Codes

Students residing in Northern View are assigned a nine-digit telephone authorization code. The authorization code is used to provide separate long-distance telephone bills for each roommate.

KEEP YOUR AUTHORIZATION CODE CONFIDENTIAL! This code will work in any apartment at Northern View. You are responsible for the security of your authorization code, and ALL calls placed using your code.

If you suspect any misuse of your authorization code, or believe the security of your code may have been compromised, call ITS Telecommunications IMMEDIATELY at 1-815-753-0963. ITS Telecommunications may monitor the use of any telephone authorization code to help prevent fraud.

Attention: students new to the NIU housing system

Your telephone authorization code is provided when you move into Northern View. Go to phonehome.niu.edu and log in with your Z-ID and password.

Lost or forgot your authorization code?

Go to phonehome.niu.edu.

Using your authorization code

You are required to use your authorization code to place a call off NIU's main campus (NIU's campus numbers are 753-XXXX). To place a call, dial the telephone number and wait to hear the confirmation tone. After you hear the tone, enter your nine-digit telephone authorization code.  Your call will then be connected.