Not my problem, I just designed the phone. Marketing sold the phones.
Wasn't our concern where they put them. Still don't care where they put
them. Schlumberger bought the company and switched to mainly jail phones
in the US. Their european branch continued to provide product for
regular payphone service.

Alexandre Domingos F. Souza wrote:
>
> >Not that I know of.  I've been away from it for a while so anything is
> >possible but the cost of the line would be prohibitive.  If the phone
> >could not CLEAR at lest $100 to $150 per month minimum, most people
> >would pull it out and place it somewhere else. Same thing with the phone
> >company. You could have a payphone installed outside your business but
> >if it did not meet a minimum, the business had to make up the
> >difference.  The business owner got a percentage of the income above a
> >certain mark. However, if a phone at a certain location made above a
> >certain amount, they would just put in a second one to lower the income
> >from the first to a threshold lower than the point at which they would
> >pay commission.  The company I worked for found that the best profit was
> >in jail phones. Captive user group. :)
>
>         Interesting! In Brazil, the local concessionaries are OBLIGATED (hmm, right spelling? Not speaking well english today) to put one payphone at every 500 mts. Doesn't matter if it has returns or not
>
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