>> I don't know if at&t (SBC, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, and SNET in
>> Connecticut) has private payphones outside of their territory
>> (i.e., in non-at&t ILEC ratecenters in at&t ILEC states; or in
>> Qwest or BellSouth or Verizon or Cincinnati Bell locations).
> Many years ago ... it muxt have been just after divestiture ... I
> stopped to use a pay phone somewhere along the road east of Waco,
> Texas, in General Telephone territory, and I was surprised to see it
> was a Southwestern Bell pay phone.
SWBell seemed to try anything related to phones for a while. I remember seeing phones, caller id boxes, etc ... with their logo all over the country. Mostly cheap junk. Amazingly they dropped much or all of this stuff after a while. :)