The Payphone Project gets a mention in this story from Victoria, Canada, which explores ambivalence to the expected rate increase for calls made from Telus payphones.
“Plenty of people eschew, can’t afford, or just don’t need cellphones. The question is whether there are enough of those people to keep pay phones profitable.
“Maybe not, to judge by the reaction (or lack thereof) to the news that the 50-cent phone call is coming. There was damn near a revolution when the toll jumped to two bits from a dime in 1981. This time, a collective yawn.”