Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Our Landlord Has a Charge-a-Phone Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 06:06:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 27 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 256, Message 5 of 10 John Alsop writes: > I just spent a week's vacation in Florida. The house we rented had a > "Charge-a-Phone" instead of an ordinary telephone. It looked pretty > much like a normal phone set, but had various labels with instructions > for use, etc. There is a diner in Los Angeles (the name escapes me) that has a phone at every table. They are "genuine Bell" phones and each is connected to CO dial tone. These are, in effect, Charge-a-Calls. You can place 800, 10XXX, 950, 0+ (goes AT&T), but not local calls (except as 0+). A group of us had dinner there a number of months ago and it was great entertainment playing with the phone while waiting for our meals to arrive! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: On I-55 from here to St. Louis all the food/gasoline stops along the way have a similar arrangement. At each booth in the restaurant, a wall-phone is hooked to a one-way outgoing line. All calls from the phone must be zero-plussed or 10xxx zero-plussed with billing on a collect, third number or telco credit card basis. PAT]