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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 02:19:23 CST
- From: Rob Knauerhase <knauer@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: More Pay Phone Restrictions
- Message-ID: <telecom12.842.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 842, Message 2 of 14
- Lines: 42
-
- FYI (everyone), from a news brief:
-
- (CLEVELAND)--Ohio Bell and the City of Cleveland are initiating
- two new methods to limit the use of public telephones for illegal
- purposes, such as drug dealing. Ohio Bell will begin working with the
- city to identify public phones that are being used for illegal
- purposes. The new methods eventually will be available statewide to
- other communities served by Ohio Bell.
-
- One of the two methods: Restricted Call Access makes it
- impossible to use coins to complete a call during late evening and
- early morning hours. Calls can be completed during these hours only by
- the use of calling cards or other billing arrangements. Customers will
- continue to have access to information operators, 9-1-1 emergency
- services, and 800 numbers from the public telephones.
-
- I guess since this is a "brief" they decided not to mention the other
- method; this sounds pretty much the same as was in Chicago (mentioned
- in past Digests).
-
- I wonder if "other billing arrangements" includes the right to
- third-party billing at $.25 rather than the usual operator-assisted
- rate.
-
-
- Rob Knauerhase University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- knauer@cs.uiuc.edu Dept. of Computer Science, Gigabit Study Group
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I think you will find there will be no
- accomodations at all made by telco where billing arrangements are
- concerned, and that the normal surcharges will apply on calls from the
- restricted payphones. Someone raised this point with Illinois Bell,
- saying IBT would profit from the surcharges made necessary to callers
- from the restricted phones. IBT took umbrage at that and said there
- was little to be gained by them; that they were making the restrictions
- available only because of community demand for same, and that they
- (telco) were not happy with the arrangement. IBT took a neutral stance
- on the matter of payphone 'mis-use' (i.e. calls to/from drug dealers)
- here and finally capitulated to the politicans, etc. PAT]
-
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