Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!arrester!kimf From: kimf@arrester.caltech.edu (Kim Dorian Flowers) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Pay Telephone at Home Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 90 01:55:50 GMT References: <1990Jul10.180944.12143@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Jul12.143201.2416@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3175@rsiatl.UUCP> Sender: news@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 25 jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes: >> Next month East Central Illinois Bell Telephone is going to a local >>calling system where you pay about 5 cents for every local call you make. >>The phone company estimates that my bill will just about double. I have >>three teenagers and two lines with call waiting on both lines. We have had >>some trouble in the past with our kids making unauthorized long distance >>calls. One month alone, one kid made $300 worth. We solved that problem >>by having AT+T install a security code for long distance calls, and it has >>stopped the abuse. >>[...] >> My current problem is how to regulate the local calls now that we >>must pay for every call. I want a system where the kid must go to some >>central location, put a nickle into a box, and all the phones in the >>house will be activated for one and only one call. At all other times >>I still want to be able to receive incomming calls. This system sounds >>a lot like the standard pay telephone at a gas station and we could have >>one installed if I can't come up with another option. >>[...] How much WOULD it cost to have a pay phone installed? Kim Flowers kimf@tybalt.caltech.edU