Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: vicorp!charlie@uunet.uu.net (Charlie Goldensher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 10-Cent Pay Phones Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 89 16:25:56 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Charlie Goldensher Organization: V.I. Corporation, Amherst, Massachusetts Lines: 25 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 388, message 4 of 8 In article mholtz@sactoh0.uucp (Mark A. Holtz) writes: >I am kinda wondering. . . . is there still some areas in this country >that still have payphones for a dime? Yes. Where I live, in Franklin County, Mass., Nynex operates pay phones that cost ten cents for a local call. Unfortunately, that hardly makes up for the lousy phone service we get. (I don't know much about the technical aspects of telephony, but we still have pulse-only dialing. And there was one evening when I couldn't even reach the operator, much less anyone else, even though I had dial-tone. And how do they deal with problems? They "check out the line" and "find nothing wrong". Perhaps the equipment is so antiquated that they don't have many people left who know how to diagnose and fix its problems.) Incidentally, does anyone know why I might not be able to use the 10xxx access codes? Could it be related to the fact that we only have pulse-dialing (or some other aspect of our antiquated system)? Or should I complain to Nynex? When I try one of the codes, I get a (fast, I think) busy signal. Charlie Goldensher charlie@vicorp.uu.NET