WESTONA proposed ordinance seeking to prohibit the installation of pay telephones in public rights of way has been tentatively approved by city commissioners.Commissioner Edwin Jacobson cast the ...

Mobile phones are a primary reason for the pay phone’s demise, said Mark Thomas, who in 1995 started cataloging pay-phone locations as an art project. He was inspired, ...

Several decades ago, college students frequently made headlines by seeing how many of them could crowd into a phone booth. Clark Kent, alias Superman, often looked for a phone booth to change into ...

The modern era has caught up with pay phones at the Disneyland Resort. Thanks to the incredible growth of cellphones, the resort has quietly removed all the pay phones from its original theme park.

Union County has just 112 pay phones left in various government locations, down from about 150 a few years ago. The demise of the pay phone can be directly blamed on the cell phone.

Cellphone usage has become the norm for many Americans, leading multinational companies like AT&T to leave the pay phone ownership business once and for all in 2007. Sybase, a globally recognized ...

Pay telephones in public rights of way will no longer be permitted under an ordinance adopted by the City Commission. The measure was approved last week by a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Edwin Jacob… ...

The American Public Communications Council estimates 700 million calls were made from public pay phones last year.

The Bloomberg administration wants to give new life to the city's largely ignored pay phone stands by turning 10 of them into Wi-Fi distributors and calling for suggestions on how to remake the rest.