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From: forrette@cory.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette)
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Subject: New Breed of COCOT
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Date: 7 Jan 91 14:32:49 GMT
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I've not seen this one before.  It looks very much like the blue AT&T
coinless phones that they often have at airports or highway rest stops
in the middle of nowhere.  No screen or card reader, just the dialing
pad and receiver.  This one looked very much like the AT&T one, in
fact, I wasn't sure until I tried to dial 10288, which after about the
2, resulted in "This is not a valid number."  Looking closer, the logo
on the upper left corner looks much like the Pacific Bell asterisk,
except there are only five points instead of six.  I didn't fiddle
with it any further.  It was at the Taco Bell (I didn't realize the
humor in this until just now! :-)) in Mt. Verde, Arizona, which really
is in the middle of nowhere.


[Moderator's Note: There are some COCOTS here which require a careful
examination to detirmine that they are not 'genuine Bell'. So how come
if their 'alternate service' is so good they have to try so hard to
decieve the public to make them think it is a Bell phone?  PAT]