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AT&T steps away from the phone booth
news.com ^ | 12/03/2007 | Richard Defendorf

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911services; att; cellphones; payphones; phonebooths; thephonecompany; vanishingamerica
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To: Graybeard58

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


21 posted on 12/03/2007 11:36:25 AM PST by bill1952 ("all that we do is done with an eye towards something else." - Aristotle)
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To: Sax
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...

22 posted on 12/03/2007 11:38:24 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: CougarGA7

The jig is up for Clark as it is.

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


23 posted on 12/03/2007 11:39:00 AM PST by bill1952 ("all that we do is done with an eye towards something else." - Aristotle)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Where am I going to change?


24 posted on 12/03/2007 11:39:41 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: Red in Blue PA

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.


25 posted on 12/03/2007 11:45:05 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: Redleg Duke

doh!

26 posted on 12/03/2007 11:45:06 AM PST by CougarGA7 (I'm supporting a Conservative not a RINO http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: bigfootbob

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


27 posted on 12/03/2007 11:48:15 AM PST by dr.zaeus
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To: bmwcyle

...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.


28 posted on 12/03/2007 11:51:50 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Red in Blue PA
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?

29 posted on 12/03/2007 12:01:13 PM PST by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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To: Paradox

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.


30 posted on 12/03/2007 12:15:36 PM PST by live+let_live
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To: dr.zaeus

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.


31 posted on 12/03/2007 12:40:00 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: Squawk 8888

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.


32 posted on 12/03/2007 12:58:28 PM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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To: bill1952

Will John Kerry need a new cellphone for Cambodia?


33 posted on 12/03/2007 1:02:04 PM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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To: Red in Blue PA
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.
34 posted on 12/03/2007 1:07:44 PM PST by McGruff (A "Big Time" Fred Thompson supporter!)
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To: Sax
Now how am I supposed to make anonymous calls!

Buy a prepaid gophone at walmart

35 posted on 12/04/2007 3:38:29 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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