Ocean City: Verizon pulls plug on payphones

Here’s hoping you’ve kept your cell phone charged on your next visit to the beach, because in Ocean City, public pay phones are going the way of telephone booths, rotary dialing, and the 10-cent call.
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Telecommunications giant Verizon, in conjunction with the resort’s Public Works office, has removed all but four of its pay phones from the resort because the coin-operated devices aren’t generating enough revenue to justify keeping them, according to town auditor Susan Childs.

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