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 ...

Karen Low, Cluster Director, Communications and Marketing, Infocomm Media Development Authority We thank Mr Kevin Tan for his feedback on payphones in Singapore (“Payphones a thing of the past? No, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In smog-darkened days and streetlight lit nights, every person who’s ever put a quarter in the slot and a public pay phone receiver to their ear probably has their own story to tell, though chances ...

Sorin Petcu is a writer and self-proclaimed video game expert. When he's not researching the latest gaming news, or trying out new mods for Skyrim, he can be found writing articles or searching for ...

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 ...

Justin Flynn is an editor and writer from Ireland. He became a gamer at the age of eight when a mix-up at his local toy store landed him a copy of Kingdom Hearts. Since then, he has earned a Bachelor ...

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 ...

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 ...