AT&T steps away from the phone booth

news.com ^ | 12/03/2007 | Richard Defendorf

[bill1952]

your cell phone won’t work in vietnam...

[Snickering Hound]

Now how am I supposed to make anonymous calls!

Get a pre-paid phone when you want to talk to your mistress, that way your wife never gets the bill.

Not that I've ever done that...

[bill1952]

The jig is up for Clark as it is.

Everyone can see that big red S through his sh*tty white shirts anyway.

[Redleg Duke]

Where am I going to change?

[freekitty]

They also raised my phone bill rates when they said they wouldn’t. I asked no less than 5 people and all told me my rates would not be affected when they split. I hate Southwestern Bell and now they have me again. I just hate this junk. Of course; they sneak taxes in for this or that.

[CougarGA7]

doh!

[dr.zaeus]

Invest in some sanitizing chemicals before you do. I stopped using them after they started smelling like bus seats.

[ctdonath2]

...like “Phone Booth”, a politically correct horror flick. It was filmed using the last phone booth in NYC, which (the booth, not NYC unfortunately) was dismantled immediately after filming.

[Paradox]

My cellphone cost me $10, and is prepaid, so that was a true cost. Each minute costs me between 10 and 17 cents, so that keeps me from wasting my time on it. Overall, it costs me maybe $7.50 per month to use.

I too will miss the payphone, however. Besides, how are the homeless and the bums supposed to recieve phone calls now?

[live+let_live]

I didn’t have a cell phone. I didn’t want a cell phone. I am always at work, at home or with my wife who has one (we drive to work together). And to top it off she claims to have sewn a homing beacon into the waist band of my underwear.

But I had my car break down in a rough part of town. There were no pay phones and I had to walk 10 blocks before I found a business that would let me use their phone. So the wife made me get one. A prepaid like your’s. It’s ok but I basically never use it.

[bigfootbob]

I would do more than that. I’d like to restore a full sized booth for my den or in my garage office for a conversation piece of Americana.

[weegee]

I also think that phone booths are still necessary in restaurants and airports even if they contain no phones. I’d prefer for cellphone conversations to take place in private rather than yakking in public.

It makes it easier to be heard on the phone and those around the caller aren’t forced to hear half of a conversation.

[weegee]

Will John Kerry need a new cellphone for Cambodia?

[McGruff]

When I went to switch back to Ma Bell from my cable phone service I suddenly discovered there’s no more real phone company office where I can go. Can’t even stop in ad get phone books. Had to do it all online.

[from occupied ga]

Now how am I supposed to make anonymous calls!

Buy a prepaid gophone at walmart