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A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas. Prepayment is required by inserting coins or telephone tokens , swiping a credit or debit card, or using a telephone card .
Replicas of British red telephone boxes in South Lake, Pasadena, California Classic style mid-20th century US telephone booth in La Crescent, Minnesota, May 2012. A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box [1] [2] is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; typically the user steps into the booth ...
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The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.
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A public call office (PCO) is a payphone facility located in a public place in India and Pakistan. It is also another name in the United Kingdom for a public telephone box (postal addresses for these kiosks sometimes include "PCO").
Another reason for the extinction is the fact that it is the payphone owners have to go collecting the 49.4¢ mandated by the FCC, for each toll-free (1800) call. They have to find out who owns (completes the call to) the toll-free number and then go after that company. This process takes from 3-months to several years.
There is not a simple way to make a reverse charge call for free in India. In early 2019 a private tech company launched services to enable a person to make an overseas reverse charge call. [9] AT&T also provides a number to make collect calls from India to the United States. The number is 000–117. [10]