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The experience resembles using a pay phone at an airport in the 1990s: several phones in a small area, with long lines and noisy surroundings, where anyone passing by can overhear the conversation.
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Joe is getting a call from Bronte, who is using a pay phone just to beg Joe to forget about her.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Roffman found a pay phone to call his office, only to hear that Trump had gotten in touch first, and Roffman needed to return to the office promptly.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
This database lists the street address for each telephone number, the name of the subscriber, the identity of the carrier serving the subscriber, and the class of service—for example, residential, business, or pay phone.
—Richard Barnes, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2014
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Joe is getting a call from Bronte, who is using a pay phone just to beg Joe to forget about her.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Roffman found a pay phone to call his office, only to hear that Trump had gotten in touch first, and Roffman needed to return to the office promptly.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
This database lists the street address for each telephone number, the name of the subscriber, the identity of the carrier serving the subscriber, and the class of service—for example, residential, business, or pay phone.
—Richard Barnes, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2014
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“Pay phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay%20phone. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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