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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your cell phone won’t work in vietnam...
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...
The jig is up for Clark as it is.
Everyone can see that big red S through his sh*tty white shirts anyway.
Where am I going to change?
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.
doh!
Invest in some sanitizing chemicals before you do. I stopped using them after they started smelling like bus seats.
...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.
I too will miss the payphone, however. Besides, how are the homeless and the bums supposed to recieve phone calls now?
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.
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.
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.
Will John Kerry need a new cellphone for Cambodia?
Buy a prepaid gophone at walmart
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