[Zod666]

I love stories like this.

Just thinking of out with the old, it mentions there are only 100,000 payphones left in america from 2 million.

Is there any value in maintaining payphones or will they all ultimately go? I dunno, it seems of value for emergencies, say one gets into an accident late and night and your phone is damaged, a payphone was impretty much in walking distance, now not so much.

Same with copper landlines. My mom still uses an old school phone that doesn't need power. A bad storm hit a few years back and everyone was without power for three days, but my mom still had phone access, unlike the rest of us scrambling to charge our phones.

It was the most reliable communications network we made and to just let it go seems wrong.

[brokenmachine]

In Australia they became free to use. Some of them have free wifi as well.

https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/payphones-free-for-calls...