Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telecom News From Delaware Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 04:35:22 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell 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 225, Message 12 of 12 Ken Weaverling (weave@chopin.udel.edu) writes: > The good news is that all of the phones are genuine Bell Atlantic > phones, and all seem to have LD service designated to AT&T. Also, the > incidence of vandalism on these phones is very low. (Perhaps since the > dealers don't want to damage the tools of their business :-) You're not kidding. During the New York Telephone strike last year, finding a working pay phone in lower Manhattan was more difficult than finding a shred of logic in your phone bill. But in my neighborhood, on a certain street corner, were not one but TWO working pay phones. Pay phones that worked 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Zero downtime. Phones that, to my knowledge, have NEVER BEEN OUT OF ORDER. Mere chance, you say? No, just good ole' American capitalism at work. Steve Baumgarten Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY