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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 landscape, even at reduced numbers.
“‘Until the country gets to a point where there’s universal service or every person breathing has access to cell phones, there will be a need for this public service,’ Meister said.
“‘It’s viable and necessary,’ Twiss said. ‘It’s not all doom and gloom.'”

Read more at the Columbus Dispatch

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