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- From: capek@watson.ibm.com
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- Subject: Prepaid Card Phones vs. COCOTs
- Message-ID: <telecom13.9.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 06:40:09 GMT
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- Reading the discussion here recently about COCOTs and the cost to a
- premises owner of a LEC coin phone, I wonder if these economics will
- change when prepaid card access phones become common. I would guess
- that such phones (common in Europe for years, but only just starting
- to be available in New York, and nowhere else in the US that I know
- of) would make it possible for an LEC to provide a card phone which is
- less subject to vandalism (due to the lack of a coin box) and requires
- less service (again, no coin box to empty). Does anyone have any
- facts about this?
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- Peter Capek
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