Wednesday, May 1, 2013

A dismantled pay phone installation

I suppose that we should have seen it coming. It was probably inevitable that the introduction of the cellular telephone would lead to the decline of the payphone. Especially in higher income neighbourhoods, the use of the pay phone has dropped dramatically. And given that the use has dropped, and vandalism has risen, the telephone companies are removing the few remaining phones.

Telus pay phones, or rather their remains, in front of Mountain Equipment Co-op, Vancouver

I would assume that pay phones will remain a bit longer in places like airports and train stations. But, I wonder when the last pay phone will be removed from the street in Canada? 5 years? 10 years?

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