"Charles P." wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > In this case, I have no interest in providing ANY maintenance for their > payphones, and no desire to make money from the payphones either. But they > have not been able to find any payphone providers (other than Verizon) in > their area. Verizon will charge them a monthly fee AND collect all money > from the phones. Installation fee $275 per phone plus $75 per month per > phone , includes cost of the line- but all worries fall on Verizon. As > opposed to purchasing a private payphone -$200 to $500 plus monthly line > charges but they keep any profit (minimal I'm sure). > > It will be a Buddhist retreat center, so vandalism is not too much of a > worry. > At this point they are shopping on the internet. They would like me to > install the wiring for the payphones (or possibly connect them to their > D1232). They will probably listen to whatever advice I can give them. > > thanks > Charles
I run the phones for my church and we used to have a pay phone, but when we installed the D1232 we had verizon remove it. Instead we put a standard analog phone with toll restriction in the hall where the pay phone was. We have been watching the traffic on the phone (via SMDR records) and the costs to us run less than $10/month in local calls. We have decided it is not worth putting in a pay phone and just consider the phone part of doing business. You might try this solution and if monthly costs get too high add a pay phone then. Most people have and seem to prefer their cell phones these days. Jeff _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
