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- From: dave@westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Another Payphone Mystery?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.7.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 02:49:29 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 7, Message 9 of 13
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- In article <telecom13.1.5@eecs.nwu.edu>, JOHN SCHMIDT <schmidt@auvax1.
- adelphi.edu> writes:
-
- [about a payphone that requested $2.00 in coin for an intra-state
- toll call, and then allowed the same call to be placed using a
- calling card for 85 cents.]
-
- > I thought charged calls were generally more expensive than cash
- > payphone calls, but then I rarely make long ...
-
- The coin rate is the operator-assisted rate. The calling-card rate is
- usually less than the operator-assisted rate. Intra-state calls
- usually cost far more (per mile) than inter-state calls. I'm not sure
- what carrier you were using, or whether your call crossed a LATA
- boundary. All of these affect the price.
-
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