Posted on 12/03/2007 10:41:34 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
The ubiquity of the cell phone has finally prompted AT&T to pull out of the pay-phone business, the company announced on Monday. By the end of 2008, AT&T says, it will have exited the business completely.
The nation's No. 1 wireless-network operator, AT&T says it expects independent operators to pick up service contracts on its pay phones, which, over the past 10 years, have shrunk in number to about 1 million nationwide from 2.6 million.
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I might be the only one, but I admit it, I’ll miss them. Now it seems like cell phone plans are the one area of technology where price does not come down, and yet everyone must own one in this day and age.
Now how am I supposed to make anonymous calls!
When I was in the service (1963-1967) pay phones were the only option. I used to buy 2 rolls of quarters to call my g/f and spend every one of them. I didn’t do it too often on my pay.
Those were the bad old days.
*68 then phone number, well it takes away the caller id.
Not to mention, signal is always crap when you try to use them anyway....
Where is Superman going to change his clothes now?
You have a point. The pay phone is a big part of many movies also.
We need a return to having police call boxes then because not everyone in this world has a cellphone but there are times it is necessary to call 911 to report something you’ve seen or that happened to you.
I just took one down in my kitchen (which I am remodeling).
I won’t be putting it back up, either.
It was nice to have a mechanical ring when people called, however.
It was set up to take money, if you provided it, but it really wasn’t necessary for dial tone, though.
I bought it from Qwest - And I’ve packed it away for storage in case one of my kids want it it the future.
Yeah, tough break for Jimmy Olson. While Clark Kent is running around looking for somewhere to change, that little cub reporter twerp is going to end up in the meat grinder.
Even if you have a cell phone, in an emergency it’s better to use a payphone because the exact location will show up on the operator’s screen.
In this era of VoIP it could well be that offering free calls may make for a viable business model.
Where is Superman going to change his clothes now?
The Denver Airport men’s room stalls are available.
That explains why his suit is mostly blue.
“Where is Superman going to change his clothes now?”
Society forced him into the closet years ago. Reminds me of my cat. Wife has an artificial plant in the hallway, he gets behind there and comes out with a fresh opened can of whoop ass, takes off “flying” through the house for the next few minutes. I call it: “he just put his cape on”.
As many times as he gets in trouble I would have let him buy the farm by now anyway.
I would like to buy a phone booth...seriously.
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