That's a good point, and good idea. I know these people will have some international guests so they may be worried about overseas calls too, but $75 per month that Verizon wants could cover a fair amount of ld calls.
Perhaps a time limit on the call length would help. thanks Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hollingsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: Re: KX-T: Re: [kxtd] Payphones > "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 > _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
