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NYC: Reinvent Payphones

New York City has turned to Joe Q. Public for ideas on the payphone of the future, focusing (among other…

13 years ago

NYC Releases Its PPT (Public Pay Telephone) Dataset

As someone whose longtime interest in payphones has been met with a mix of ambivalence and ridicule I find it…

13 years ago

NYC PPT (Public Pay Telephone) Data To Be Released?

Earlier this year I submitted a request to the NYC Open Data web site suggesting that the city release its…

13 years ago

Save Public Telephones!

Some who regarded them as irrelevant now may recognize that wholesale routing out of public telephones has created dangers to…

13 years ago

This Payphone Survived the Hurricane. The Tree Did Not.

I hope that everyone who needed one was able to find a working payphone after hurricane Sandy knocked out cell…

13 years ago

Who Still Uses Payphones?

Young woman using a payphone as her infant child looks on. October, 2012. Believe it or not, folks, people still…

13 years ago

Abandoned Payphone. Greenpoint Avenue, Queens.

The old urban legend about hypodermic needles being stuck inside coin return slots got a new lease on life when…

13 years ago

Payphones Should Be Free Phones

All phones are payphones. Whether or not you pay for the call a charge is levied somewhere by somebody to…

13 years ago

Payphones News From Texas, Canada, and Brazil

A summary of recent payphone news looks at stories from San Antonio, Canada, and Brazil.

13 years ago

Is That Really A Verizon Payphone?

A recent development in New York City payphones probably caught the attention of absolutely nobody but it represents a rare…

13 years ago