Monday, December 03, 2007
A farewell to payphones
AT&T has announced that it plans to be out of the pay-phone business by the end of 2008.The move affects AT&T's former SBC 13-state territory. Bell South, which was acquired by AT&T in 2006, had already gotten out of the pay-phone business.
It is a sign of the growing ubiquity of mobile wireless. From about 2.6 million phones in 1998, pay-phones in the United States have declined to about 1 million phones today. A C-Net news story suggests that some phone booths generate more money in advertising than phone calls.
Over the weekend, I had a discussion asking when we will see substantial reductions in basic residential wireline phones.
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 12/03/2007 01:49:00 PM 
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