Death of the payphone.

[trainman]

I had no idea ATT got out of the payphone business. And I guess Verizon is out now, too. Are there any legacy Telcos operating payphones anymore?  I hear NYC is going to convert their payphones into wi-fi hubs.    And the telcos are coming closer everyday to drop the law that they must maintain POTS service. Sad.

[Greg G.]

Maybe I'll hang on to my payphones.  The part about POTS disappearing is depressing. There's a thread here about that.

[TelePlay]

There's a thread here about that.

This may be the topic, all 9 pages of it. There may be others but this is the one that comes to mind.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=4564.0