Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: dt5y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 22:19:11 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: dt5y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (P. Fleszar) Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca NY Lines: 22 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 302, message 9 of 9 In article John Wheeler writes: >X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 299, message 3 of 8 >In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu >(TELECOM Moderator) writes: >>The price has been twenty-five cents in most places now for several years. >It's still a dime in Dawson County, GA...how many places can still say that? > Turner John Wheeler > Networks It's still a dime in ConTel service areas near (and between) Cortland and Ithaca, NY, and I suspect also in other ConTel areas throughout other Upstate NY places no one has heard of (like Eagle Bay :-) ). N.B. The ConTel payphones around here were all tone 3 years before NY Tel started installing tone payphones hereabouts. NY Tel *still* has some dial payphones in this area! Pete, KB2CCL dt5y@cornella.cit.cornell.edu