Apocalypse almost
Cell phone stoped working, showed msg Emergy calls only, Couldnt call my provider as I have only mobile and no landline. Call 911 ask if theres some city wide power shortage that would affect m...
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time2roll wrote:free radical wrote:We have a few. They cost about $300 per month for the business owner to have it there for this rare exception of need.
What bugs me why they scrapped all public phones?
Before mobile the business owner received a share of the tolls paid so it made money.
How many would you install today?
Correct.
Phone Co doesn't randomly install/place payphones, never did.
It was up to a business, city or town/township to have payphones installed.. They had to pay monthly charge for each phone and when cell service no longer cost $50 per month plus $5 per minute folks now could afford cellphones and no longer were using payphones enough to warrant a constant payment drain on a company or cities budget..
Takes a lot of quarters to pay for a device that gets very little use..
Vandals may also have played a hand in many public payphones going away, replacing broken/damaged phones and booths is costly to someone..
I remember a time when there was a full glass enclosed phone booth on nearly every city block in my nearest city.. No more, they have been removed well over 15 yrs ago..
Used to be a couple out door phone booths at a local mall, those to have been gone for many yrs..
The only booth close to me I know of that still exists is on a busy road near an abandoned State Police Weigh station.. I suspect it is not connected anymore..
