Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: avsd!childers@decwrl.dec.com (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 10-Cent Pay Phones Message-ID:Date: 26 Sep 89 19:45:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Richard Childers Organization: Metaprogrammers International Lines: 26 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 410, message 9 of 9 uvm-gen!jay@banzai.pcc.com (Jay Schuster) writes: >mholtz@sactoh0.uucp (Mark A. Holtz) writes: >>I am kinda wondering. . . . is there still some areas in this country >>that still have payphones for a dime? >Vermont payphones cost a dime. They raised it to twenty cents a >couple of years ago and there was an incredible outcry, so it went >back down to a dime. When I was in Atlanta for a USENIX a few years ago, I noticed that the phones there seemed to cost a quarter ... But everything else there seems pretty reasonably priced, so it's not on account of the local economy ... >Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay >The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming' Richard * "Domains constitute a futile attempt to defeat anarchy and otherwise * * retard progress." (Steve Bellovin, Peter Honeyman, pathalias(l)) * * * * ..{amdahl|decwrl|octopus|pyramid|ucbvax}!avsd.UUCP!childers *