Payphones Past

Nevada Payphone: A thing of the past?

19 years ago

The Nevada Appeal accompanies its fine story about declining payphones with a strangely erotic photo of a rotary dial payphone.…

Supreme court rules in favor of payphone industry

19 years ago

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the right of companies to sue over alleged violations of federal communications law and…

San Diego: Sun sets on beach pay phones

19 years ago

The Union-Tribune's Michael Stetz writes:"Mark Thomas, who started The Payphone Project, digs pay phones. Thomas used to call them out…

World’s most famous phone booth claims world record

19 years ago

Scotland's Pennan phone box, declared by a local tourism board as "the most famous phone booth in the world," was…

Scotland claims “the most famous phone booth in the world”?

19 years ago

Because of its central role in the movie "Local Hero," a phone booth in Pennan, Scotland has become one of…

Scotland: £560 for a call from a phone box?

19 years ago

By BT Scotland's math, annual maintenance costs for a phone box are about £1,600. This story profiles a Scotland phone…

Uganda: Phone Operator Disconnects Client

19 years ago

"There was drama in Nateete recently..."This all-too-short story reads like a screenplay-in-waiting. From this story, it sounds as if a…

Penn State student asks: ‘How do you make a collect call?”

19 years ago

A long article from Penn State University's "Daily Collegian" describes the inexorable decline in payphones from the university's campus. Canadian…

New York: Prisoners’ lawsuit over payphone fees revived

19 years ago

"The Court of Appeals, in a 4-2 decision, reversed a lower court's determination that the lawsuit should be dismissed for…

Payphones? Of course!

19 years ago

The Daily Herald warns against getting ripped off by unscrupulous payphone operators, and also includes a few interesting facts and…