At 10:36 97/12/20 -0500, Rabid Wombat wrote:
More like simple economics; after the breakup, a lot of pay phones were operated by companies specializing in this type of service. Pay phones are high maintenance, and their operators can only turn a profit by charging very high rates; if you make a quick call and ask the other party to call you back at the pay phone, the pay phone operator doesn't make much money.
Can you site any legislation barring pay phones from receiving calls? I'd think that most pay phone operators would be glad to deny incomming calls if they were allowed to (as they often are), and wouldn't need to be forced.
Can't a pay phone operator get paid a portion of incoming calls as well? If they can set outgoing rates to be very high, couldn't they set their incoming rates as well? (This is not an opinion, but a question.) I do know that depending on the arrangement, phone companies either carry all incoming call for free or cross bill incoming minutes to each other. - Joi -- PGP Key: http://pgp.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2D9461F1 PGP Fingerprint: 58F3 CA9A EFB8 EB9D DF18 6B16 E48D AF2A 2D94 61F1 Home Page: http://domino.garage.co.jp/jito/joihome.nsf To subscribe to my personal mailing list send mailto:friends-subscribe@ji.to