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By: Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Archive » FREE PHONE

Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Archive » FREE PHONE — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:15:23 +0000

[...] that I truly and deeply believe that this is a very good idea. I first wrote about it back in May: “Apparently, NY payphones don’t make any money as payphones- their primary value is as a [...]

By: Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Archive » Calgary, The Treephone. The TelePine.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:04:56 +0000

[...] all that still potentially useful infrastructure completely torn out from the streets. As I wrote back in May: “Apparently, NY payphones don’t make any money as payphones- their primary value is as a [...]

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:26:18 +0000

I love what you’re doing with the news boxes. I picked up your article from one of my followers on Twitter. Quite imaginative. Thought I’d do some posting on it this week on my blog.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:21:39 +0000

I hear yuh. When my family and I moved out west from Hamilton, it was very difficult to find a payphone anywhere, especially in the small towns and some parts of the mountains we couldn’t get cell phone service.

I say keep the public telephone going. You never know if you may be in a position where your cell phone batteries run out. Also helps tourists, as well.

By: Gowsk

Gowsk — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:59:36 +0000

But if the pay phones are free, then the cell phone companies will start losing money! Conundrum.

Hypothetically, what would it take to disconnect a phone from its box? Cordless payphones seem like a logical technological leap into the future.