>The public payphones in Sweden (almost all of them) use a smartcard.= There's a display on the phone which shows how many meter pulses you have= left on the card. >Just before the decrement comes, there's a faint high-frequency tone beep= in the receiver. I think that the intention is that you should normally= not be able to hear that tone. >I don't know if there's a similar beep on a normal subscribers line, or if= it works in the same way abroad. But, maybe, you will get some ideas. BTW Attila, Do you live in sweden? I'd like to put my hands on some of= these used smartcards, I'd like to fiddle with it a bit ;o) ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---- Alexandre Souza taito@terra.com.br http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/pinball/ ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---- -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body