Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!telecom-request From: Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Want to Buy a COCOT Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 17:49:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 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 216, Message 5 of 10 Steve Ligett writes about needing a pay phone where there isn't enough traffic for the telco (or the local COCOT people) to put on in. He wants to buy a COCOT. Most telco's offer something called a "Semi-public phone." This is the pay phone in the office of the gas station. Sometimes it even has incoming-only extensions. (There have been stories here in Telecom Digest about enterprising youngsters who devised a method to create outgoing extensions :-) It's also entitled to a directory entry. You pay something to have the phone there, and perhaps get a kickback on the usage. Check the tariffs in your state regarding coin service and semi-public coin service. edg [Moderator's Note: Who? Me?? PAT]