>>> 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. And Roger writes, > 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. Yes agreed, also Telstra are doing a ‘good thing’. And whilst they are, why not multiply the resulting benefits with a free telephone service? That is, as well free local calls, offer everyone a free telephone number with it’s own answering machine service to allow maximum usefulness. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
