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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Ohio Bell to Cripple Pay Phones in Cleveland
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:30:41 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 850, Message 8 of 13
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- According to a UPI story, Ohio Bell has announced plans to cripple
- some pay phones in Cleveland. They have already started converting
- pay phones from tone dial to rotary, and restricting them to outgoing
- calls only. Now they will also be disallowing coin calls (credit card
- and collect will still be allowed) at certain hours of the day, and
- disabling the tone pad after dialing on those phones that still have
- tone dials. They claim that this will limit the use of pay phones for
- illegal purposes.
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-
- [Moderator's Note: Rob K. also wrote about this in the Digest over the
- weekend in issue 842. I hope you are not blaming Ohio Bell for this
- situation. I doubt sincerely that telco is doing anything other than
- reacting to community pressure in the 'war on drugs'. IBT did this
- about a year ago only after the local politicians, neighborhood block
- clubs, etc pushed them on it. IBT is neutral on the use of their pay
- phones as long as the call gets paid for; I suspect OBT is also. PAT]
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