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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!edscom!rpt
- From: rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson)
- Subject: Re: phone boxes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.091650.387@edscom.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <C1B9MF.87B@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Distribution: uk
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:16:50 GMT
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- In article <C1B9MF.87B@cck.coventry.ac.uk> lsg001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Graham Wilson) writes:
- >
- >** Is the cost of dialling anywhere in the country whether it be peak,
- > standard or cheap rate from a public call box the same as it costs
- > to make the same call from a private residential BT phone ? Do you
- > get the same number of seconds for each unit ?
-
- No. It is much more expensive to call from a phone box. Also, remember that
- if you accept a reverse charge call from a phone box, you pay at the phone
- box rate even though it appears on your home phone bill.
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- Richard Tomlinson, EDS Scicon Ltd, Wavendon Tower, Milton Keynes, UK MK17 8LX
- rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk Tel: +44 908 284539 Amateur radio: G4TGJ
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