Cohousing-L Mailing List: Telephone in the common house?

[Lynn Nadeau (welcome]

I took a telephone in the common house as a given, in our programming, 
and imagine a lot of ways it might be useful. (Some of our 22 homes are 
as much as three blocks from the common house, and several are out of 
sight of it.) ( I assume long-distance blocking would not be a problem 
and would preclude any financial abuse of the system.)

But some people are now questioning whether we should install a phone, 
when we get to that point in the construction process. 

Have some of you actual experience of having a common house with or 
without a telephone? With or without a computer that can go on line? 
(another use for a phone line)

Thanks, 
Lynn at RoseWind