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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 .
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.
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 ...
Recently, the city moved its last freestanding payphone from the street to a museum. It's just another reminder that today's newest, fastest, and best technology will soon look like a relic.
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.
Almost 150,000 calls were made to emergency services from phone boxes in the year to May 2020.
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 ]
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