AT&T said by the end of next year they are going to stop owning and operating public pay phones. The company which operates 65,000 pay phones will put them up for sale and it is said that independent operators will be the first to bid.
"Even in the age of mobile handsets and BlackBerrys, people still drop quarters into public phones. About 5% of all U.S. households, and 8% of those with annual incomes under $20,000, have access to neither wireless nor land-line phones."
This is what would be my guess for why AT&T is going to stop operating the pay phones. I remember awhile back, the phones on some sides of freeways were taken away because the majority of people own a cell phone now and there was no need to have them there.
Apparently, public pay phones have been around since the 1880's and now with all of the technology we have, it seems as if the pay phone business is no longer profitable.
By Lauren Darmody
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