So, Stepma Bell is quitting the payphone business.
Let me see: Network of powered, connected, lit refuges in high-footfall areas. And they can’t work out how to make a business from these?
I’m having that “let’s sell directory services!” moment all over again.
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how much do you think people would pay to have a private conferencing facility in many places around a city?
Posted by: at December 4, 2007 11:28 PMThey even seem to be claiming they cannot make money off payphones in jails and prisons! Captive audience. Mobiles are contraband, so while they certainly exist, are not available or convenient for the bulk of the users.
Agree?. How can they not be making any money off this?
Posted by: at December 5, 2007 03:41 PMHow _did_ that Verizon Wi-Fi payphone thing do? I forget.
Posted by: at December 6, 2007 09:07 PMSteven Hoober writes:
They even seem to be claiming they cannot make money off payphones in jails and prisons! Captive audience. Mobiles are contraband, so while they certainly exist, are not available or convenient for the bulk of the users.
Agree?. How can they not be making any money off this?
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Point of information:
The FCC has a proceeding ongoing on prison payphone terms and rates (see Docket 96-128). The prison payphone rate issue currently before the FCC is not whether rates are too low, but whether they are too high. As an FCC economist working on that proceeding, I assure you that the issues will be diligently analyzed.
Posted by: at December 11, 2007 02:01 AM