Just came across this ancient yet shockingly functional artifactpic.twitter.com/SE6qrbgs5J
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I’m definitely not liberal. I also absolutely appreciate your views on things. Some I agree with, others I am baffled by. Regardless though, in today’s world, I think it’s important to recognize your unbiased approach to journalism and thank you for the effort.
We have help buttons under bridges now that call the police at least but yeah, it's no good that they're gone.
I've actually though about that for a long time. Used to be if you see a 911 emergency, you go call from a pay phone. What happens if you don't have a cell phone now?
#foodforthought
That's something that's never crossed my mind. Thanks for bringing some awarness to this.
I can appreciate the empathy you feel but honestly even the poorest homeless people have cell phones nowadays
OR on the positive side - no one hardly needs the help they use to?
I’m sure it has. Another public service taken out of the public and made private. Several people in public have asked to use my phone. Not crisis but urgent. I took a picture of this a couple months ago!pic.twitter.com/D57YpDyADC
911 call is available at no charge from a working cell phone. Other hotline not available of course. The pay phone service at the end was getting very expensive in general. Collect calls were started for about $3/1st min. and then $1 a min.
Pay phones were actually set up with local businesses who would open the service with the carrier as a way of drawing in customers. Deregulation of telecommunications industry fostered price gouging by third parties to set up on the lines. People found cell phones cheaper.
In Canada, payphones, often in full booths, are ubiquitous for the reasons you cite.
Why did we eradicate those things? That never made any sense to me, were they really a drain on public resources? Felt like it was done to encourage cell phone purchases. Similar to eradicating cable cars to encourage car ownership in the early 20th century.
And trains to support the trucking industry.
It's imporant to keep payphones around. Cell phones aren't always going to work
How do you charge them?
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