Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: dsinet!marka@quick.com (Mark Anacker) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Invasion of the Phone Snatchers (COCOTs Strike Again!) Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 17:34:34 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Digital Systems Intl., Inc. 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 270, Message 12 of 14 In article , dsinet!marka@quick.com (Mark Anacker) writes: > town, so we pulled up at one of the many, *OFFICIAL-LOOKING* pay > phones. It wasn't until it refused to complete her call, and ate her > quarter, that I went over and found it was one of those infernal coin I gotta admit, when I called to complain about the phone, they did finally send me a refund (a quarter taped to a form). The carrier of the COCOT is identified as Interwest Telecom. They may not know how to program a phone, but at least they paid up. I think I'll go use the GTE phone in that town from now on. Mark Anacker ...{!dsinet,!toybox}!marka Digital Systems International, Inc. Redmond, WA USA (206) 881-7544 [Moderator's Note: A COCOT proprietor here in Chicago answered my complaint one day by sending me a check for 25 cents!. PAT]