About 100,000 pay phones left in the United States, says the FCC

WCMH-TV ^ | March 19, 2018 | Joe Clark

[beaversmom]

That was quite an episode he was having.

[Still Thinking]

Yes, but now they’ll be very confused. Unless, it’s a gibsmedat, in which case they’ll be upset by the denomination of the coin.

[Still Thinking]

Well, see, that’s why everything’s gone in the shitter. He’s TRYING to help, but can’t find anywhere to change.

[beaversmom]

Haven’t seen this movie:

Phone Booth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiI91igl180

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88YBTmbAaoY

[veracious]

Won’t last long. Not used by enough USAians and state needs to know where you are at all times and who you talk to. Part of the end time sequencing...

[nuke_road_warrior]

And none of them have a phone book, and less than twenty actually work.

[Sacajaweau]

Cheat’n husbands hit hardest.

[crabpott]

Don’t know if it’s true. My dad worked on initial infrastructure designs for cell phone development for AT&T. He told me there was a storage area in the Arizona desert where thousands of phone booths were stored. Bone yard for phone booths. In case that Mobil phone thing didn’t catch on I surmise. Must be a photo somewhere if it really exists.

[crosdaddy]

I made pay phones in the 80’s for Palco tele com, first job I lost to NAFTA.

[edwinland]

I did some research on this and I think the reason for the high revenues is simple price gouging.

Payphone revenues dropped every year until 2011 and then they suddenly almost tripled and have remained high ever since.

(see FCC report here https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-343025A1.pdf )

So I googled around to find out what happened in 2011, and that was the year that Verizon capitulated and got out of the payphone business, shutting down a lot of phones and selling the remainder to companies that don’t have any qualms about charging $15 (yes $15!!) for a one minute call using a credit card, see here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-navigator-dont-be-surprised-by-exorbitant-pay-phone-rates/2013/01/31/845f564c-6724-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html?utm_term=.db632d27edbe

[Mears]

“I made pay phones in the 80’s for Palco tele com, “

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AAAAH,so you were a COCOT guy.:-)

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[crosdaddy]

Sorry Mears, I don’t know what COCOT is, I probably should, but don’t.

[Justa]

I remember the near riot of us kids when the cost of Bazooka Joe bubble gum doubled from 1c to 2c. There was talk of burning factories.

[Hyman Roth]

Superman hardest hit.

LOL

[deport]

will be about when wired home phones will also disappear.

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Haven’t had a home phone in several years now.

[Mears]

Old NYNEX term (when they HAD payphones.)-—Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone.

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[Dust in the Wind]

Can we still drop a dime on someone?

It only takes a nickle in my home town. 8^)

[\/\/ayne]

This phone booth graveyard is located between Ripon and Thirsk, near the village of Carlton Miniott, UK.

[gigster]

I’m so old that I remember when Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum was two for a Penny.