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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Public*Phone
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Date: 13 Jul 90 16:01:48 GMT
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In article <9622@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
writes:

>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...

	This thread reminds me of a remarkable phenomenon I observed
on a recent trip to Chicago. At the Dunkin' Donuts in Des Plaines (on
Higgins, if I recall correctly), there are four pay phones; one next
to the entrance, and three on the back wall. My recollection is that
the one at the entrance and one of the ones on the back wall were
Centel phones, and the other two were operated by *Illinois Bell*.

	Question: Are the IBT phones COCOTs? Or is the Dunkin' Doe
franchise located in some sort of Telephone Demilitarized Zone? 

>It was in Las Vegas that I was first introduced to the $7, three-minute
>call to San Jose.

	At least you got thru to San Jose, which is more than you'd be
able to say had you used one of those funny-looking telephones that
has a handle instead of a receiver :^).


Jeff Carroll
carroll@atc.boeing.com