Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!tcom.stc.co.uk!pete@uunet.uu.net (Peter Kendell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: British phone cards Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 89 14:32:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB. Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 122, message 7 of 7 >From article , by halliday@cc.ubc.ca (laura halliday): } While in London a couple of years ago the locals told me } that the rationale for phone cards (other than byuing a } 20 pound phone card with paper money rather than coins) } was that card phones have no money in them, and are thus } much less likely to be vandalized. } } - Laura Plus, BT just *love* collecting your money from you before you make your call. Think of all that extra cash it gives them. Plus you might lose the card. Plus, a card telephone doesn't show you your money draining away the way a cash one does so you are likely to spend more. Do I carry a card? Yes, because money phones are disappearing fast and the time I *really* need a phone will be the time there's only a card phone nearby. But I don't like it. -- | Peter Kendell | | ...{uunet!}mcvax!ukc!stc!pete |