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From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT COCOTS!
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Date: 11 Apr 88 13:21:34 GMT
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johnl@think.UUCP (John R. Levine) wrote:
> Boy, you're not kidding.  I've had COCOTs ask me to pay for 800 calls, and
> one asked 90 cents for a 950 call.  Needless to say, I didn't pay.

I had a private pay phone in Las Cruces, NM take my quarter when I got
ring-no-answer!  It was at a large chain grocery store.  I went inside to
complain, they gave me back the quarter, I went out and called the
second number where my friend might be, ring-no-answer, hung up.  Went
back inside to get the refund again.  This happened four times total
(and I never did find my friend).

The store management explained that a few months earlier, the parent
company had had all the Bell phones removed and put in their own to make
more money.  They sure did, but lost the goodwill of at least one customer.