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  2. Payphone - Wikipedia

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    The Bell System payphone took nickels (5¢), dimes (10¢), and quarters (25¢); a strip of metal along the top had holes the size of each coin. The US slang term "drop a dime" means to inform the authorities about another person, originally by placing a call from a pay phone. It can also refer to the placing of a phone call for social purposes.

  3. Telephone booth - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Nortel payphones - Wikipedia

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    A Mondex version of the payphone was also produced, it has a special larger display with navigation keys. There is also an inmate version of the card only set, as well as a smaller deskset that used only a card reader. The desk set closely resembled a regular Meridian M7310 office phone. These smaller sets were often found in malls and hospitals.

  5. Category:Public phones - Wikipedia

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  6. Pacific Telemanagement Services - Wikipedia

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    Jaroth, Inc. d/b/a Pacific Telemanagement Services is a nationwide operator of payphones in the United States based in San Leandro, California. [1] It was founded in 1984 and has taken over many pay telephone operations that major telephone companies have abandoned.

  7. An East Hollywood makeover: Friends transform smelly dumping ...

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    Anderson, a former dancer, often admired a defunct payphone near her apartment decorated with black-and-white comics, lights and other dressings. One day she saw Cura working on it and struck up a ...

  8. Telephone card - Wikipedia

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    A stored-value phone card stores the available credit balance in an analog or digital memory physically embedded in the card. This balance can be read by a public payphone when the card is inserted into the card reader.

  9. Public call office - Wikipedia

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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").