Payphones Past

Pay phones have become an old-fashioned hang-up

“‘I would certainly think the cellphone is making the pay phone extinct,’ says Merton C. Flemings, professor emeritus of materials, science, and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ‘I can’t imagine pay phones surviving very long in any great numbers.'”

Look for a quote from the Payphone Project in this well-reported story about payphones and phone booths.
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