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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
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Subject: Re: AT&T 'COCOT' Style Payphones
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Date: 28 Jun 90 17:20:06 GMT
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In article <8955@accuvax.nwu.edu> blake@pro-party.cts.com (Blake
Farenthold) writes:

>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).

When I was on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon all of the Pay Phones
were by Mountain West.  Some were traditional old style, and a number
had a LCD display attached.  What I found fascinating was that the
card on the phone indicated that since they did not provide long
distance service you needed to consult with "your long distance
carrier" for instructions about how to dial long distance calls - even
the phone books carried no instructions about how to make long
distance calls :-(

In fact 0+ dialing gave me ATT long distance :-), but when trying to
access an 800 service which required tone input, it would regularly
disconnect me after entering tones :-(


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