AT&T gives payphones two thumbs down

By on Dec 4, 2007 at 2:18 PM
News December 4, 2007

"No, why would I spare a quarter?", you might say in the future, when someone asks you. Because soon, there probably won’t be any payphones around to throw quarters into. AT&T announced yesterday, that they are stopping payphone services in its traditional 13-state area (AR, CA, CT, Il, IN, KS, MI, MO, NV, OH, OK, TX, and WI). The number of payphones in the US have fallen from 2.6 million in 1998, to just about 1 million now, and much of the fall is contributed the increase of cell phones. So put your quarters in a piggy bank, save up to get a pre-paid cell phone instead, and you’ll be better off than trying to search for a payphone. But then again, visiting this site, you most likely do have a cell phone. In this case, feel free to consider yourself on "the winning team"

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  • Galvatron

    There’s still baks of payphones here in az. Mostly hispanics and daylabor on the streets use them for phone sex lines.

  • edward

    lol at winning team i live in a major city and pay phones are hard to find the other day someone asked wherea pay phone was i thought hard then said matter of fact just use my phone

  • gino

    Glavatron if u don’t have anything positive to say don’t said anything at all.I’m hispanic. Next b careful what u said.

  • gino

    Glavatron if u don’t have anything positive to say don’t said anything at all.I’m hispanic. Next time b careful what u said.

  • raerae

    DAMN…where will I PEE now!!! CRUEL WORLD

  • Galvatron

    @ gino. just telling you like it is. Arizona is ba border state I the city were I live you go down 2 miles from my house there’s a whol intersecttion of ilegal day labors all 4 corners despite the fact on eacch corner ther are )ellow signs that say day labor pickup prohibited. Oh and do not play the race card. A good chunk of my coworkers are hispanic – work for a construction company.

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