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From: Andrew Farmer <adf@aficom.ocunix.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: Maestro Phones From Northern Telecom
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443114@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Eric Skinner) writes:

> [Moderator's Note: Probably the reason it said 'long distance' was
> because the payphone was a COCOT

Bell Canada still maintains a monopoly on phone service in Ontario and
Quebec, thus we don't have COCOTs up here.  My guess is that any
'collect' call will trigger the "Long Distance" display (since most of
them would be).


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