“Pay phones don’t get a ringing endorsement from consumers.
“The popularity of cell phones has made them a lonely alternative in an increasingly wireless world, but companies that own pay phones don’t expect them to face extinction.
“There is going to be a base of users who will always be users of pay phones, either because they don’t want a cell phone or they can’t afford one,” said Rich Fouke, manager of business development at Verizon Public Communications, the Verizon subsidiary that operates 320,000 pay phones in 38 states. “

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