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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…

19 years ago

NPR: There’s No Tech Like Low-Tech

NPR delivers a flailing, unfocused piece that nevertheless opens some interesting windows into the paranoia of Americans who for some…

19 years ago

UK: Phone boxes converted to card-only use

"Rural payphones saved from having the plug pulled on them are being converted to take cards instead of coins. "Merely…

19 years ago

UK: End of the line for payphones

"British Telecom is to scrap three Wirral payphones and remove cash payment facilties from a fourth. '"We appreciate that some…

19 years ago

Boston Globe: A Port in the Storm

"You're climbing your way out of homelessness and trying to get a job. And a place to live. And meds…

19 years ago

Forbes: Want to chat in private? Use a pay phone.

"'A pay phone and a roll of quarters is the best way to protect your privacy if you're really interested,'…

19 years ago

Wales: Couple hope to keep lonely pay phone

"John and Jane Hughes have a telephone at home, but it only takes incoming calls. They got into the habit…

19 years ago

Architecture of Waiting

Alexander Trevi on the architecture of waiting: "... landscapes of waiting. The anticipation of a call, or the prank call,…

19 years ago

North Carolina: Cell-phone use growing among the homeless

"Cell phones are increasingly popular among the Triangle's homeless. With public pay phones quietly disappearing and prices on cell phones…

19 years ago

Atlanta: ETS Payphone Scammer Heads to Jail

"An Atlanta man will spend the next 13 years in prison for defrauding more than 12,000 people out of $400…

19 years ago