The New York Times reports:
“Like the phonograph and the typewriter, the pay phone could one day become an anachronism, the kind of prop seen in period films.
“The number of pay phones in the United States fell to about 1.3 million in 2004 from more than 2 million in 2000, according to the latest figures from the American Public Communications Council, a trade association based in Alexandria, Va. In New York State, the group said, there were nearly 165,000 pay phones in 2002. Two years later that number had dropped to about 137,000.”