Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 89 20:05:24 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 299, message 2 of 8 In article , esegue!johnl@uunet.uu. net (John Levine) writes: > The last I heard, Taconic Tel, a small independent telco that serves the > area around Chatham NY, near the Massachusetts border, still remains the > last refuge of the five cent pay phone. It is my impression that they don't > have enough of them to make it worth the effort to go before the PUC and > change the rate. This is still true. Taconic Telephone brags about their nickel pay phones quite a bit. I suspect that pay phones are a money losing product for Taconic, but that they pay off in the long run in good PR. At least once a year the _New_York_Times_ runs a feature article on "the nation's last nickel pay phones." This is good for Taconic, as most of their customers are transplanted New York Citians. Taconic actually serves a fairly large area, covering much of New York State east of the Hudson between Troy and Poughkeepsie. Semi-related trivia question: Name the famous movie in which the following line was uttered: "THERE'S a phone call that'll cost more than a nickel." -- NSA food: Iran sells Nicaraguan drugs to White House through CIA, SOD & NRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161 "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without...a rebellion." Thomas Jefferson