Millennium
The Nortel Millennium were introduced in the 1990s and allowed the use of coins and cards (credit card or phone cards as well as "smart" chip cards.) These units came with touch tone key pad only. A display screen allowed user to view the number dial and change the language from French to English.
These units were used by:
- Bell Canada
- Telus
- Qwest
- Sprint
- Sasktel
- Telebec
- Telephone de Nantes
- Telephone de Warwick
For coin return, Millennium users must hang up the receiver first.
The copyright to this unit was sold to QuorTech when Nortel moved away from manufacturing phone devices.
The whole basis of the Millennium Payphones was to introduce network control. The control center can be configured to monitor many things such as how full the cashbox is, is the coin validator jammed, and specific jam alarms indicate where these jams are likely to be. Area Codes can be blocked from specific phones on the phone itself if specific fraud scenarios are being targeted. There are sensor options for the vault area which determine if the set is being pounded (like a hammer and chisel) so that campus or other types of local security can be dispatched.
A Mondex version of the payphone was also produced. It has a special larger display with navigation keys. There is also an inmate version of the card only set.
Read more about this topic: Nortel Payphones
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