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Columbus: Wireless dealing a blow to pay-phones

"[Howard Meister, president of Cleveland-based North Coast Payphones] said he believes that pay phones always will exist on the American…

19 years ago

WebPhone: Australia VoIP Pay Phones

"The new VoIP pay phones, dubbed the WebPhone, has (sic) a handset, color monitor, full keyboard and looks similar to…

19 years ago

Australia: Telstra to remove 4000 payphones

"[Telstra] has told its pay-phone provisioning staff to begin taking out the extra phones later this month, despite being warned…

19 years ago

Los Angeles: Pay phones out, cells take over

"... as cell phones have given pay phones a run for their money, some in the industry are hoping for…

19 years ago

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…

19 years ago

AP: Pay phones’ disappearance angers some

SeattlePI.com reports: "In the late 1970s and early '80s, the phones became increasingly unpopular with  community boards and local officials…

19 years ago

Nevada’s “Loneliest Road” has become even lonelier

Abby Johnson describes how SBC/AT&T's removal of unprofitable public phones in rural Nevada has created public safety concerns, stranding some…

19 years ago

Fox News: Pay Phones Suffer As Cell Phone Use Rises

FoxNews.com reports: "A stroll along Ninth Avenue in Manhattan reveals an ugly picture of the state of the pay phone…

19 years ago

Brother, can you spare a quarter?

I get quoted at far greater length than I deserve in this nice story about the potential removal of a…

19 years ago

Daytona Beach News: The Lost Jobs

The pay-phone maintenance man is cited as an example of a job that will eventually disappear. The maintenance man quoted…

19 years ago