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  • The Mysterious Disappearance of the Pay Phone

    12/11/2021 9:27:32 AM PST · by SamAdams76 · 121 replies
    Please pay this blog a monthly fee ^ | December 11, 2021 | Nathaniel Perry (with an assist from his border collie mix)
    If you are under 30, you will probably not understand. There was a time when there were millions of these things across the United States. They were once as ubiquitous as stop signs as you could find on on just about every corner. Every neighborhood bar had one. Every gas station. Every supermarket, restaurant, post office, convenience store, movie theaters, well, just about every public place you could think of. And in places where people congregated in larger numbers, there were BANKS of these things. Airports, shopping malls, sports stadiums, and highway rest areas had rows of them! I'm talking...
  • AT&T steps away from the phone booth

    12/03/2007 10:41:34 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 34 replies · 52+ views
    news.com ^ | 12/03/2007 | Richard Defendorf
    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.