Not needed any more

Former location of a Telus pay telephone, Douglas College, New Westminster

At one time you'd see telephone booths, and other types of pay phones, all of the place. (There were quite a few of them around the college.)

But those days have long since passed. Every student now has a mobile phone and many of them can't keep away from them even during class.

Just another classic example of the product life cycle in action.

Product lifecycle graph
Source: https://geileon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cycle_graph.jpg

The pay phone is in terminal decline and I can't see it ever recovering.