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Their "payphones" are described as free to use. "Payphone" was probably just used as the moniker due to the association that "payphone" has as an installed pub

Their "payphones" are described as free to use. "Payphone" was probably just used as the moniker due to the association that "payphone" has as an installed public telephone.

Aloha 4y ago
Public Telephone is a better word. Though the death of the pay station was accelerated by the drug crisis, a reduction in pay stations lead to an acceleration in mobile phone adoption here in the states.
- xattt 4y ago
  What is a pay station?
  - Aloha 4y ago
    a telephone, generally in a public place, where you deposit payment for phone calls, usually in the form of coins.
    - xattt 4y ago
      So a pay phone? I took it to be some sort of transaction place.