Posted on 05/08/2018 11:16:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There are still about 100,000 payphones here in the United States, according to the FCC, but their numbers are dwindling fast.
It's kind of like spotting a unicorn.
Apparently pay phones still exist in the United States and apparently people are still using them!
According to the FCC, there are approximately 100,000 pay phones throughout the country; about a fifth of them are in New York.
There were around 2 million in 1999.
Pay phones remain somewhat of a steady business, according to CNN. The FCC says providers reported a $286 million revenue in 2015.
However with rising audit costs, and more low-income Americans turning to prepaid cellphones, the industry's future appears bleak.
That was quite an episode he was having.
Yes, but now they’ll be very confused. Unless, it’s a gibsmedat, in which case they’ll be upset by the denomination of the coin.
Well, see, that’s why everything’s gone in the shitter. He’s TRYING to help, but can’t find anywhere to change.
Haven’t seen this movie:
Phone Booth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiI91igl180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88YBTmbAaoY
Won’t last long. Not used by enough USAians and state needs to know where you are at all times and who you talk to. Part of the end time sequencing...
And none of them have a phone book, and less than twenty actually work.
Cheat’n husbands hit hardest.
Don’t know if it’s true. My dad worked on initial infrastructure designs for cell phone development for AT&T. He told me there was a storage area in the Arizona desert where thousands of phone booths were stored. Bone yard for phone booths. In case that Mobil phone thing didn’t catch on I surmise. Must be a photo somewhere if it really exists.
I made pay phones in the 80’s for Palco tele com, first job I lost to NAFTA.
I did some research on this and I think the reason for the high revenues is simple price gouging.
Payphone revenues dropped every year until 2011 and then they suddenly almost tripled and have remained high ever since.
(see FCC report here https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-343025A1.pdf )
So I googled around to find out what happened in 2011, and that was the year that Verizon capitulated and got out of the payphone business, shutting down a lot of phones and selling the remainder to companies that don’t have any qualms about charging $15 (yes $15!!) for a one minute call using a credit card, see here:
“I made pay phones in the 80s for Palco tele com, “
AAAAH,so you were a COCOT guy.:-)
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Sorry Mears, I don’t know what COCOT is, I probably should, but don’t.
I remember the near riot of us kids when the cost of Bazooka Joe bubble gum doubled from 1c to 2c. There was talk of burning factories.
LOL
will be about when wired home phones will also disappear.
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Haven’t had a home phone in several years now.
Old NYNEX term (when they HAD payphones.)-—Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone.
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It only takes a nickle in my home town. 8^)
I’m so old that I remember when Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum was two for a Penny.
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