MacAllister Stone writes: "My personal experiences with payphones over the years tend toward the middle-of-the-night, damn-I'm-in-a-fix variety. You know the…
NPR delivers a flailing, unfocused piece that nevertheless opens some interesting windows into the paranoia of Americans who for some…
"Rural payphones saved from having the plug pulled on them are being converted to take cards instead of coins. "Merely…
"British Telecom is to scrap three Wirral payphones and remove cash payment facilties from a fourth. '"We appreciate that some…
"You're climbing your way out of homelessness and trying to get a job. And a place to live. And meds…
"'A pay phone and a roll of quarters is the best way to protect your privacy if you're really interested,'…
"John and Jane Hughes have a telephone at home, but it only takes incoming calls. They got into the habit…
Alexander Trevi on the architecture of waiting: "... landscapes of waiting. The anticipation of a call, or the prank call,…
"Cell phones are increasingly popular among the Triangle's homeless. With public pay phones quietly disappearing and prices on cell phones…
"An Atlanta man will spend the next 13 years in prison for defrauding more than 12,000 people out of $400…