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 Message 1406 
 George Pope to August Abolins 
 what's the point in this? 
 01 Mar 23 09:35:52 
 
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> Hello Jay!
> ** On Friday 10.06.22 - 15:50, you wrote to me:
>>> https://kolico.ca/tmp/audio_2022-06-10.ogg
>> When you dial the phone number of a pay phone you'll get
>> the same recording.
> I've that that number on file since 2015, and no prior issues.
> Unless.. the person is relying on a pay-phone for calls?  Hmmm.

The telcos often catch up late on blocking incoming calls to some payphones.

I recall when they did a big blast on such in the late '80s & our free
calling  service was dead (we had codes to say which payphone we were at, so
we could  get a call back for free; there was a list by the home phone so when
we got a  short ring-in & hangup, we could match the number of rings to the
chart & call  whomever it was back, saving them $0.10CAD, which was a lot of
money to us  then!

Soon after they blocked incoming calls on all payphones & then soon after 
again, they jumped the cost to 25c/local call.

Sorry for my part in this inconvenience. . .

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