Payphones

[dhnl]

Does anyone have any experience providing customer owned and operated pay telephones at public facilities? How does such a unit interface with calling and/or credit cards? Who makes the equipment we will need?

Is it worth it to bother at all? Line costs are not a concern in this situation.

 

[Trotski]

DORO make and sell Payphones
They use meter pulses provided by the Telco

 

[jerryreeve]

Trotski, I am familiar with meter pulses in Europe, are they used in North America also (just for payphones)?

Mind like a Steel trap - Once used forever clamped shut.

JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[Trotski]

I have no idea about Nth America, Australia uses the Euro/British standards

 

[oldgoat47]

DORO payphones have an inbuilt dial/charging table and don't require meterpulses but need a reversal on answer if I remember correctly

 

[jerryreeve]

I did a search on customer owned pay phone and got a quite a few hits. here are a couple, the second one has a fairly good FAQ area.

http://www.phonecoinc.com/category.asp?map=1&hhrl=home&group=main&gorl=group&category=Homepay

http://payphonedirect.com/newpayphones.html

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JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

Mind like a Steel trap - Once used forever clamped shut.

 

[Jtodd]

I installed CO-payphones about 15 years ago, and they had all that worked out some how. There was no extra hardware or programming that I can remember. I'd give you the name, but they are long out of business, and we got the phones from Amway.

JT

Justin T. Clausen
Physical Layer Implementation
California State University, Monterey Bay