Method of obtaining a communication from a public telephone apparatus following coin prepayment

Abstract

Abstract The method comprises in succession the insertion of coins into a handling device 3 interconnected between telephone lines 211-21N linked to a telephone exchange 4 and telephone loop lines 201-20M linked to public telephone apparatuses 11-1M, the allocation of a confidential account number by the handling device 3 and the collecting of the inserted coins, the dialling of the allocated account number into an unoccupied apparatus after lifting off the hook, and the establishing of a link from the loop line 201-20M of the apparatus to one of the telephone lines 211-21N via a telephone switch 2 and under the control of the handling device 3 in response to at least one validation of the dialled account number forwarded by the apparatus. Each apparatus no longer contains money and no longer encourages forced entry to a coin box. It is no longer necessary to read off coin boxes in the public highway.

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