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From: esegue!johnl@uunet.uu.net (John Levine)
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Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone
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Date: 14 Aug 89 22:27:39 GMT
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In article  our moderator writes:
>In the late sixties, most payphones were charging fifteen or twenty cents
>per call. The price has been twenty-five cents in most places now for
>several years.

Ten cent payphones are still the norm in most New England states, except for
COCOTs, of course. I guess we're just thriftier than the rest of you.

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.
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John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
{ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl, johnl@ima.isc.com, Levine@YALE.something
Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old.  -The Globe