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From: blake@pro-party.cts.com (Blake Farenthold)
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Subject: AT&T 'COCOT' Style Payphones
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Date: 14 Jun 90 14:09:53 GMT
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I always figured if anyone hated COCOTS it was AT&T.  Well I found
what I'd call an AT&T COCOT.  The card on the phone said the phone was
OWNED by AT&T it looked like a 'normal' payphone (not one of their
card phones) and took quarters for local calls ... thing is you dial a
number and it locks out the keypad (it really was annoying as the one
call I made on it was to my voice mailbox and I couldn't retreive my
messages).

Guess it makes a lot of sense as you don't normaly need the keypad
after dialing an AT&T call.  I wish I'd had time to play with the
phone to see if it (now illegally) blocked access to other carriers.
Next time I'm in the Officers club at NAS Corpus Christi I'll make
time to fool with the phone.

You guys at AT&T need to clean up your own phones before griping about
other peoples.


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