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What Killed the Pay Phone? It was more than mobile phones

theatlantic.com

5 points by rustcharm 7 years ago · 3 comments

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elliekelly 7 years ago

>[O]ne in five Americans rely on their smartphone as their sole access to the internet.

That’s just not right. Imagine needing to do research for a school paper and your only options are the limited time available on a school computer or your parent’s smartphone?

zzo38computer 7 years ago

We need more pay phones. 2600 still has eight pictures of pay phones in every issue.

deytempo 7 years ago

Pay phones don’t let you play clash of clans or browse Facebook

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