< Payphone Warriors: A New York City Street Game | | Maine: Good Old Pay Phones > Mendocino: Pay phone removals provoke worries October 08, 2006 The Mendocino Beacon refers to the Payphone Project, and to the "This Ain't Livin' blog cited in this story about the Headlands Payphone in Fort Bragg, CA, in a nicely done story about the removal of public phone in areas poorly served by cell phone coverage. There is only criteria for removing public telephones in the United States: Profit. If a payphone is not profitable then the owner will have it removed without benefit of public hearings or any other feedback. "... the California Public Utilities Commission provides funding for pay phones that don't make enough money to support themselves. That means Mendocino County Supervisors could apply for funding for a Public Policy Pay Phone. But that program demands that phone service not be available or that the phone be in a spot designated as an emergency gathering area, according to the state Website." Read more at the Mendocino Beacon