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- *The NPA Tech. Journals*
- * Presents *
- * millennium cocots *
- * By: Lucky225 *
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- Millennium Cocots:
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- The Millennium Cocots, perhaps the most "feared" of all payphones by
- phone phreaks. This payphone has it's ups and it's down's. Most phone
- phreaks would surely think that this payphone has "High-Tech security
- features", and maybe it does. In this file I will explain my
- experiences with the NPA 909 members, exploring the millennium's.
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- The Ringer:
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- Unlike most cocots the millennium payphone well ring when you call it. However, the ringer
- is not "electric", or connected to the payphones electricity. Instead it is connected to the
- phone line it's self, so if the payphone were to have a power outage you could still call the
- payphone.
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- The Display:
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- The Display is powered by 220v electricity, this electricity also goes to the "computer" inside
- the phone, so if there were a power outage the display would not light up. Also it is believed
- that there is a code you can enter that well bring up a menu on the display, i have seen this
- menu before when a lineman entered the code, however i was not interested in millennium payphones
- at the time and forgot about it. It is reason to believe that there is a differen't code for
- every payphone, because I tried a U.S. West code i got from a friend and it did nothing, he tried
- it on another U.S. West phone and said it didn't work on the other phone but it always worked on
- this one particular phone.
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- Buttons:
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- In the above paragraph i mentioned about a certain "code" that can bring you to a menu if you are
- wondering how to program the speed dial buttons you would, in therory, need the code and then you
- would just go threw the menu till it ask you what button to program and then you'd hit the button
- and key in a number and hit another button and it would store the number. Also if you take the
- button case off there's a lil green button im not sure what it's for, i think it's a reset button.
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- Loop Detection:
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- If you were to cut the electricity or there were a power outage, the screen would go blank,
- however when you picked up the handset you would here a dial tone. This dial tone is the actual
- dial tone from the phone line. The cocot has powerout and loop detection, if the payphones
- power goes out and you dial 1+any other number you would here a click the second you hit the
- next number on the keypad and then another dial tone(the payphone hung up when you tried to call long
- distance. But if you dial 1+8(the payphone wont hang up yet)+0(still hasn't hung up)+0+xxx-xxxx
- it wont hang up because as you can see you dialed a 1-800 number (same goes for 888 and 877
- numbers on some of the newer millenniums, same goes for 911 calls). If you dial any other key
- on the keypad first besides 1 such as 7 for example it well hang up. You can not use rotary
- method to get around this. A tone dialer well work if the mic is not cut, but the payphone
- has Loop detection so when the party answers, the payphone well check for any money in the
- hopper, if there is no money in the hopper it well hang up as soon as the party answers.
- Now of course you could dial a local number over and over till they *69, but trust me that takes
- a while, and the NPA does not support toll fraud, and besides if they *69 you and don't have
- *69 service it would cost the person 75 cents, might as well call collect.
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- conclusion:
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- Little is known about these new millennium phones, i have a websight that i update every
- once in a while its at http://www.anglefire.com/ca/NPA/mill.html, if you have anything you
- would like to contribute to millennium payphones please email me at Lucky_225@juno.com and I
- will add more information in a later file and give you thanks. Peace.
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