Anyone who reads Fark (as i do when relaxing on Sundays as i wait for kickoff) will have possibly seen this... but it's still funny and applies to folk who had a fun past with Payphones and who have now watched them vanish...
Pay phone unplugged after costing Davison County [South Dakota] $69 per call
OK, so the headline might be a little disingenuous regarding the per-call-cost, deriving that figure from a calculation. But that leads to an interesting question... i was going to joke that "they didn't factor in the revenue from those 11 calls"...
then i thought about the fact that the local hosting institution doesn't take that revenue, the phone company does (right?)
then i thought... "wait a minute, doesn't the phone company pay the costs of the phone, too?" how could this be costing the courthouse or the county money? think it's some sort of fly-by-night connection company and a shared-revenue phone or third party phone?
Pay phone unplugged after costing Davison County [South Dakota] $69 per call
A pay phone in the county courthouse in Mitchell will be unplugged after officials discovered it cost the county $69 per call last year.
County Maintenance Supervisor Mark Ruml told the Davison County Commission that he'd never seen anyone use the phone in more than three years and money to pay for it was coming out of his budget.
It cost the county $763 a year to have the phone. Ruml said records showed only 11 calls were placed on the phone in 2010.
County Maintenance Supervisor Mark Ruml told the Davison County Commission that he'd never seen anyone use the phone in more than three years and money to pay for it was coming out of his budget.
It cost the county $763 a year to have the phone. Ruml said records showed only 11 calls were placed on the phone in 2010.
then i thought about the fact that the local hosting institution doesn't take that revenue, the phone company does (right?)
then i thought... "wait a minute, doesn't the phone company pay the costs of the phone, too?" how could this be costing the courthouse or the county money? think it's some sort of fly-by-night connection company and a shared-revenue phone or third party phone?
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