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<text id=90TT1093>
<title>
Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Telecommunications
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 77
Business Notes
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Dial C For Clean
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<body>
<p> Good old rotary-style pay phones are making a comeback. The
reason is not nostalgia but an effort to thwart drug dealers
who use push-button phones as their command posts. The dealers,
who typically wear pagers, can send and receive messages via
touch-tone phones to clients and colleagues. But most pagers
will not work in conjunction with dial phones. U S West
Communications, a subsidiary of one of the regional phone
companies, has replaced push-button pay phones with rotary
models at 18 locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
Neighbors and law-enforcement officials are delighted. "The
rotary phones have stopped the drug traffic. We feel a lot
safer," says Billie Curren, 58, who headed a neighborhood group
that first complained to the telephone company about the
problem.
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</body>
</article>
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