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AT&T payphone in San Antonio, Texas in 2006
A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone or pay telephone or public phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas. Prepayment is required by inserting coins or telephone tokens, swiping a credit or debit card, or using a telephone card.
The company that operates the payphone generally pays either rent or a revenue share to the owner of the property where the phone is installed.
Invented in the late 19th century, payphones became ubiquitous worldwide in the 20th, enough to contribute to the notion of universal access to basic communication services. The charge for a call may be a flat rate, or dependent on call duration. Following the explosive growth of mobile telephony, the use of payphones, and the number installed, has decreased greatly.
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are used, such as public Internet kiosk, public access terminal, and Web payphone. Many hotels also have public terminals that are usually fee-based. These...
charge service could be obtained by dialing the operator on 10 or, from payphones via 1 800 28 28 28 and international reverse charge services could be...
Nominated Collaboration of the Year Nominated ASCAP Pop Music Awards 2013 "Payphone" (with Maroon 5) Most Performed Songs Won "Young, Wild & Free" (with Snoop...
to NTL (now Virgin Media) in 2000. From 1986 Mercury operated public payphones in the UK, in competition with BT. These proved not to be profitable and...
in late 2015. The Links replace the city's network of 9,000 to 13,000 payphones, a contract for which expired in October 2014. The LinkNYC kiosks were...
v t e Melon Music Award for Best Pop Song 2012: Maroon 5 — "Payphone" (feat. Wiz Khalifa) 2013: Bruno Mars — "Young Girls" 2015: Mark Ronson — "Uptown...
trafficking and other criminal activity can use payphones to conduct crimes anonymously, so many payphones are not equipped with a ringer at all, or a quiet...
v t e Melon Music Award for Best Pop Song 2012: Maroon 5 — "Payphone" (feat. Wiz Khalifa) 2013: Bruno Mars — "Young Girls" 2015: Mark Ronson — "Uptown...
on Maroon 5's Platinum-selling album Overexposed and its lead single "Payphone" featuring Wiz Khalifa. On June 13, 2013, Blanco was presented with the...
As a part of their weekly calls, Rosario describes the area around the payphone to Carlitos in detail. Meanwhile, Carlitos lives in his hometown with his...
juror for wearing white shoes after Labor Day. Beverly follows her to a payphone and fatally strikes her with the receiver. Somers angers Beverly into an...
know Johan's location. While Eva makes a phone call to the hospital at a payphone, Kristoff reveals Johan's location to Tenma who leaves without Eva. Nina...
enforcement told the judge that he could somehow dial into the NORAD modem via a payphone from prison and communicate with the modem by whistling to launch nuclear...
"Baby Bell" that did not operate pay telephones. By 2003, BellSouth's payphone operation was discontinued because it had become too unprofitable, most...
shoreline, however the culprit was never found. In 2019, Mark Thomas of The Payphone Project acquired the former telephone number for the Apology Line, 212-255-2748...
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