Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Good For a Laugh: Polish Payphones Message-ID: <9539@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 9 Jul 90 04:35:53 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 470, Message 10 of 10 "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com> writes: > "`Don't have a 20-zloty coin? Not to worry. With some > shrewd dealing you can buy one for as low as 200 zlotys.'" > (I make that out to be about 2 cents U.S. !) On a trip to La Paz (Mexico) last year, a local teenager demonstrated how to make a call if one didn't have the correct change (or didn't want to actually expend the funds). One takes the coin, (US coins seem to work for this purpose as well) and insert it partially. When the telephone appears to have recognized the coin, simply remove it. Many of the payphones there didn't even require that much effort--they just provided free calls. Obviously, the Mexican telephone company doesn't consider public phones to be the gold mine that they are in the US! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !