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From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout)
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Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone
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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."

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