[VoIP] [off VoIP] Ernest Telecomm 7D-3 Payphone

[Rusty Dekema]

On 9/4/07, Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote:
> The whole rate file concept is the one major problem I have with COCOTs from
> a collector/recreational perspective. I want a real, honest to goodness,
> working payphone with working coin collect and coin return, which prompts
> for deposit, etc. However, I don't want to buy a COCOT from a COCOT company,
> because they are geared to people using them to generate revenue, rather
> than for recreational/amusement purposes. That's why I've always thought an
> implementation of ACTS in Asterisk would be so cool. Then, I could get a
> non-COCOT single-slot phone, and make up my own rate file! Five dollars for
> ten seconds to CNET! Ten cents for ten hours long distance! You get the
> idea.
> Jayson

I guess the next logical step after this would be to get Asterisk to
interoperate with one of those cut rate outsource-by-the-hour call
centers, whose operators could ask your payphone's users, in person,
to "deposit 40 cents more for the next 3 minutes" (as the song goes).
:)

Rusty