Dave Leibold <Dave.Leibold@f135.n82.z89.onebdos.UUCP> (05/01/91)
Danny Padwa <PADWA@hulaw1.harvard.edu> wrote in the Digest:
% In article <telecom11.306.6@eecs.nwu.edu>, Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com
% writes:
% > I have vague recollections of a service that allowed 25 cent calls all
% > over New York State for a maximum of 30 seconds. It was specifically
% > available at Grand Central Station (and probably Penn Station too) and
% > was designed for "meet me at the station at 5:06" type of calls.
% Yup ... that was exactly how this worked. It was introduced back in
% the days of ten cent local calls in New York.
% New York Tel introduced these phones in Penn Station, Grand Central (I
% guess), and JFK International Arrivals (and perhaps other places ...
% I've only used them at Penn). It was quite a deal ... for a quarter
% you could call anywhere in the state (even Buffalo!) for 30 seconds
% ... at which point you got cut off with no warning or mercy.
Downtown Miami has a few of the "Anywhere America" payphones; it costs
30c/minute to call to any place in the USA. It costs $1/min to call
Canada or points in (809) like Bahamas, Jamaica, etc., and (if memory
serves correctly) $2/min overseas.
There are some COCOTs at a nearby convenience store that will allow
calls to a few select 900 numbers on relatively harmless topics (a
sports line was one of the choices from what I recall). The charges
for these calls didn't seem too far out of line from other 900
numbers, though the COCOTs undoubtedly might take a super big gulp of
cash in other ways.
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