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Out of interest does anyone have any statistic on how often phone booths are used? I'd have thought that with most people owning mobile phones the need to ever
by pattle 12y ago
Out of interest does anyone have any statistic on how often phone booths are used? I'd have thought that with most people owning mobile phones the need to ever use a pay phone is very rare
- bluedino 12y agoI thought they were all gone in NYC for some reason.
- acafourek 12y agoAs of 2009, only 4 phone booths remained in Manhattan: http://www.scoutingny.com/the-last-phone-booth-in-new-york-city/ http://www.scoutingny.com/the-last-phone-booth-in-new-york-c... Comments on that thread note that in 2012, at least 2 of those were verified as still around, but not sure about now. There are a lot of phone stalls still around though - a number of which have been sites for experimental improvements for some time now, including a Google initiative to outfit some with public wifi: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/business/future-of-public-pay-phone-wifi.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/business/future-of-public...
- Turing_Machine 12y agoI was wondering that too. I very rarely see public phones anywhere except airports nowadays, and they're pretty thin on the ground even there (sometimes you see the dedicated lines that connect directly to (e.g.) a cab company). It's not like the old days when there was a phone booth every few blocks, and massive banks of pay phones in airports.