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jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes:


>>	Next month East Central Illinois Bell Telephone is going to a local
>>calling system where you pay about 5 cents for every local call you make.  
>>The phone company estimates that my bill will just about double.  I have
>>three teenagers and two lines with call waiting on both lines.  We have had
>>some trouble in the past with our kids making unauthorized long distance
>>calls.  One month alone, one kid made $300 worth.  We solved that problem
>>by having AT+T install a security code for long distance calls, and it has
>>stopped the abuse.
>>[...]
>>	My current problem is how to regulate the local calls now that we
>>must pay for every call.  I want a system where the kid must go to some
>>central location, put a nickle into a box, and all the phones in the
>>house will be activated for one and only one call.  At all other times
>>I still want to be able to receive incomming calls.  This system sounds
>>a lot like the standard pay telephone at a gas station and we could have
>>one installed if I can't come up with another option.
>>[...]

How much WOULD it cost to have a pay phone installed?

Kim Flowers
kimf@tybalt.caltech.edU