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From: abm88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Morley A.B.)
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Subject: Re: More COCOTery
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Date: 10 Oct 90 16:00:56 GMT
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I'm sorry to ask such a seemingly simple question, bot what are
COCOTs? Presumably something we're not blessed with in the UK.


Andrew Morley, abm88@uk.ac.soton.ecs


[Moderator's Note: COCOT = Customer Owned, Coin Operated Telephone. It
is a type of pay telephone operated by a private company instead of
the telephone administration.  Subject to government regulations (and
sometimes despite them!) the owner of the telephone sets the rates and
standard of operation. Most are poorly operated and greatly
overpriced. They tend to be located in places where more conventional
pay telephones are scarce. Despite the fun with words we've been
having the past couple days in the Digest, COCOTery and COCOTism are
not a philosophy or religous practice. They are, however, a good
reason for raising hell.  PAT]