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The next time UNLV students use the university's telephone registration system -- known as TOUCH -- they will need to dial a new number: 798-UNLV (8658).

A new telephone trunk line has been installed to carry the 48 lines reserved for the call-in class registration system, according to Lauren Dean, director of management services at UNLV.

The only change that students using the TOUCH system will notice is the new phone number, Dean said. But people calling other offices at the university will notice a big difference around registration time: they won't get so many busy signals.

The 48 TOUCH lines have shared a trunk with other university lines, which has caused problems during class registration. Just before spring semester classes started in January, for instance, the university received numerous complaints from people who could not get through to various offices. The new trunk line is expected to eliminate that problem.

Previously, the TOUCH number has been has been 895-4055. Now that the new number has a different prefix, those dialing from campus must dial the entire number, rather than just the extension. This holds true for all phones except for the special TOUCH phones at Frazier Hall, the Student Services Center, and Classroom Building Complex.

Dean said in the past, some students have driven to the campus to use the dedicated TOUCH phones, because it was somewhat easier to get through to the system on them. Now all phones -- on the campus and off -- will be on an equal footing, she said. It will be as easy to register from home as from the campus.