Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: "Independent" Coin Phones Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 03:37:32 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: A corner of our bedroom Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 129, Message 3 of 12 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article , IZZYAS1@mvs.oac.ucla.edu (Andy Jacobson) writes: > found the whole place wired with Ultra-Rip-Off (TM) phones, that > wanted $1.75 for a call. I had to go miles, like three, to find a real > Pac*Bell phone that would charge me only $0.40 for the same call And how much did that three mile drive cost you, in time and inconvenience? Sometimes I feel like John Higdon, amazed at the trouble people will put them to to save a nickle or make a point. But then I dutifully clip coupons and comparison shop and go out of my way to find a free automatic teller. I'll make a special trip at lunch to get diskettes for $7.00 instead of $10.00 a box. Anyway (dragging my train of thought bodily back on the tracks and, to mix a metaphor, pinning it to the mat) just how much is that honest Bell coin phone worth to you? peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com