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 ...

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… ...

DETROIT – A pay telephone on a busy Detroit street corner could once net $200 a week in just coins. But that was 30 years ago. These days, Greg Andrick is lucky to find $5 or $6 in a pay phone's ...