Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!telecom-request From: uccxmgm@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Please Define COCOT Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 17:20:35 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 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 218, Message 10 of 12 While I've been reading this news group, I've seen lots of references to "cocots" They are obviously independently owned payphones, but what does the acronym "cocot" actually stand for? Enquiring minds want to know. I read this news group through a speech synthesizer and the acronym comes through sounding much like a popular Spanish obscenity. From the horror stories about these monuments to human avarice, the similarity is quite amusing. [Moderator's Note: Its that old standby question again, folks! I answer this in mail a couple times a week at least, but now and then put one in the Digest for folks who would like to know but don't write: ustomer wned oin perated elephone. The first two words are frequently interchanged with the third and fourth word, as in Coin Operated Customer Owned Telephone. Is there an 'official' way to say it? PAT]