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- <text id=90TT1093>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Telecommunications
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Dial C For Clean
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Good old rotary-style pay phones are making a comeback. The
- reason is not nostalgia but an effort to thwart drug dealers
- who use push-button phones as their command posts. The dealers,
- who typically wear pagers, can send and receive messages via
- touch-tone phones to clients and colleagues. But most pagers
- will not work in conjunction with dial phones. U S West
- Communications, a subsidiary of one of the regional phone
- companies, has replaced push-button pay phones with rotary
- models at 18 locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
- Neighbors and law-enforcement officials are delighted. "The
- rotary phones have stopped the drug traffic. We feel a lot
- safer," says Billie Curren, 58, who headed a neighborhood group
- that first complained to the telephone company about the
- problem.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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