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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 ...
As of 2016, under 100,000 pay phones remained in the U.S., a 95% decline from 2000, when there were over 2 million. This number has likely shrunk significantly since the FCC last collected the data.
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The payphones operate using publicly-available internet connections. [7] The phones have automated phone trees and users can make a call to local social services, to a weather forecast line, or access local transit information. [8] Volunteers act as telephone operators, offering information about the Futel service, or are available for ...
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In 2013, a year before the payphone contract was set to expire, there was a competition that sought ideas to further repurpose the network of payphones. [6] The competition, held by the administration of Michael Bloomberg , expanded the idea of the pilot project. [ 6 ]
According to the September 2010 edition, there were 872,256 operating payphones in the United States as of March 31, 2007, versus 700,826 operating payphones on March 31, 2008. (Table 7.6). By my calculation, that rounds off to a 19.7 percent decline.