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Re: Verizon and Other Payphones (re: Clueless Hollywood)

DLR (news23@raleighthings.com)
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:37:51 -0400

Wesrock@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:20:42 -0600, Anthony Bellanga
> <anthonybellanga@notchur.biz> writes:

>> I don't know if at&t (SBC, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, and SNET in
>> Connecticut) has private payphones outside of their territory
>> (i.e., in non-at&t ILEC ratecenters in at&t ILEC states; or in
>> Qwest or BellSouth or Verizon or Cincinnati Bell locations).

> Many years ago ... it muxt have been just after divestiture ... I
> stopped to use a pay phone somewhere along the road east of Waco,
> Texas, in General Telephone territory, and I was surprised to see it
> was a Southwestern Bell pay phone.

SWBell seemed to try anything related to phones for a while. I remember
seeing phones, caller id boxes, etc ... with their logo all over the
country. Mostly cheap junk. Amazingly they dropped much or all of this
stuff after a while. :)

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