Payphones Past

AP: Pay phones becoming scarce across U.S.

“A full 7.1 percent of the nation’s households had no phone of any kind in November 2005, up from 4.7 percent three years earlier, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
“For those people, and for the estimated 43 percent of U.S. residents with no cell phones (as of June 2004), pay phones are especially crucial, advocates say.”

Read more at the Houston Chronicle

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