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From: avsd!childers@decwrl.dec.com (Richard Childers)
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Subject: Re: 10-Cent Pay Phones
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Date: 26 Sep 89 19:45:53 GMT
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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


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