Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Please Define COCOT Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 06:39:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 21 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 222, Message 7 of 8 On Mar 19 at 1:02, TELECOM Moderator writes: > Is there an 'official' way to say it? PAT] There are plenty of unofficial ways to say it but this is a family program. You might be interested to know that in California, when these things first sprouted, we called them COPTs (Customer Owned Pay Telephones). This is how they are still referenced in PUC documents. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: To assist our visually handicapped reader who first raised this question this time around, that is C O P T (hopefully your vox said the letters rather than trying to pronounce them as a word). And yes, there are indeed many names for those foul, unnatural devices. :) A mild epithet might be 'payphones from hell'. :) PAT]