> On 3/08/2021 2:00 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> While last year’s tally of 11 million phone calls, at 50c each, would have >> brought in $5.5 million, Mr Penn declined to disclose how much free public >> calls would cost Telstra, other than to say it wasn’t “an enormous amount” >> to bring new life to an “iconic” asset.
On 3/8/21 3:52 pm, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > I wonder what it costs to maintain public pay phones? Not having a > device that collects cash must simplify the whole installation. Best of all, not having to pay people to go around the now-sparse population of machines, extracting the rubbish that very strange people shove into the slots. I understand people not trusting 'authority'. But treating a service-to-me-and-people-like-me as the symbol of authority, and therefore to be beaten up and bruised, ain't smart. Each device might need some retro-fitting to enable it to keep working despite the coin-entry being jammed. (Wouldn't it be nice if <flag-fall = zero & per-minute-rate = zero> meant that the telecomms functioned irrespective of a jammed coin-collector. 20-20 hindsight is great!). -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
