Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Covert 10-Jul-1990 1747" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pac*Bell Phones at Dulles? Message-ID: <9568@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Jul 90 21:47:24 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 29 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 472, Message 4 of 12 From: Greg Monti Date: 10 July 1990 Subject: Re: Pac*Bell Phones at Dulles? Tom Neff writes: > In this summer's movie DIE HARD 2**, which supposedly takes place in > Dulles International Airport (Washington DC), the payphones have a > prominent Pac*Bell logo on them. Do they really provide the service > in Dulles? ... Nope. Phone service at Dulles is provided by Continental Telephone Company of Virginia (Contel), which is not a Bell Operating Company. They now provide both local and Washington Metropolitan service on two different prefixes. Some businesses, airport authority and pay phones may still get their Metro service the old fashioned way, by running loops to a foreign-exchange central office controlled by C&P of Virginia in nearby Herndon. However, even if these were pay phones, they used Contel-provided customer premises equipment, usually GTE Automatic Electric pay station instruments. I guess these talk to the C&P CO just fine for coin handshaking, etc. Greg Monti, Arlington, Virginia; work +1 202 822 2633