A photographer who set out to document Rochester's pay phones has now started a mission to revive the archaic infrastructure: ...

Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is more of a museum piece than a functional object. So it’s fitting that the phone immediately made its ...

ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- They're planted on sidewalks, bolted to buildings, but many of them serve no purpose. At street corner after street corner, receivers have been ripped off the wire; in one, a ...

The last standing public payphone in the city was removed from a Times Square street on Monday. City officials bade farewell to the iconic, coin-operated phone booth as a crane ripped it from the ...

Due largely to the overwhelming dominance of mobile phones, payphones are a sometimes overlooked relic from the 90’s and earlier eras. While seldom seen out in the wild these days, they can however ...

Surveillance camera footage captured a truly wild scene as the lives of two people were saved from a car that was about to roll over them in Milwaukee over the weekend. The hero in all of this? A ...

BEIJING – For years, the public payphone in Beijing — demurely shielded by its bulbous, yellow cover — sat underused, eclipsed by the rise of the smartphone. Then on a Saturday in July it began ...

Nearly two decades ago I was in the payphone business. I worked for an independent 1+ and 0+ payphone carrier. The gist is that every time someone made a collect call, the company made money by being ...