Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: mlm@homxc.att.com (Mark L Milliman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 35 Cent Payphones In Iowa Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 89 00:59:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: AT&T-Bell Laboratories Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 329, message 4 of 7 I am not sure what you mean by this article. SouthWestern Bell does not provide local telephone service in Iowa; US West Communications does (formerly Northwestern Bell). The US West pay phones were still 25 cents the last time I was in Iowa. There are several vendors of private pay phones that can charge anything they want (I suppose this is regulated). The property owner gets a commission from use of the pay phone. I suppose that this person stumbled across one of these phones. I have seen phones that charge 35 cents for a three minute call. This situation is no different in any other state. Was this person joking? How could you live in a state for ten years and not know who your local phone company was? It is even harder to believe that he thought his uncle worked for them. Am I confused, Mark Milliman E-mail: mlm@homxc.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories Holmdel, NJ