Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Public*Phone Message-ID: <9622@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Jul 90 01:59:41 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 22 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 476, Message 2 of 11 In article <9530@accuvax.nwu.edu> dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin) writes: >Since there don't seem to be any COCOTs manufactured to >look like the pay phones of independent telqi, the COCOTs in Centel >territory (usually outside gasoline stations or inside restaurants, >but far sparser than in IBT country) stick out like sore thumbs. Centel's other major bastion, Las Vegas, has the same problem but more of it. When COCOTs were allowed there, they sprang up like a fungus and you are hard pressed to find even one of Centel's stupid-looking (but quite functional) NT coin phones. Also, since there was no point in trying for the "Bell" look, most of the COCOTs look like anything from stamp machines to condom dispensers. And most of them might as well be; their handling of telephone calls leave a lot to be desired. It was in Las Vegas that I was first introduced to the $7, three-minute call to San Jose. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !