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San Diego: Sun sets on beach pay phones

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

19 years ago

World’s most famous phone booth claims world record

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

19 years ago

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

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

19 years ago

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

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

19 years ago

Uganda: Phone Operator Disconnects Client

"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…

19 years ago

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

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

19 years ago

New York: Prisoners’ lawsuit over payphone fees revived

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

19 years ago

Payphones? Of course!

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

19 years ago

When a serial murderer calls… from a payphone

Here is an interesting story about one reporter's involvement in the infamous Zodiac serial murderer case. In September, 1969, the…

19 years ago

New York: Subway Pay Phones Harder to Find

It is fair to assert that most New Yorkers are probably indifferent to the decline in payphones in the subway…

19 years ago