Payphones
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Victoria’s Chinatown home to one of B.C.’s last payphonesTELUS said it currently has about 800 active payphones left in B.C., with most in transportation hubs, hospitals, prisons and at some corner stores.FeaturesJul 10, 2022
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End of an era: St. Albert’s last payphone to be removedSt. Albert's last payphone, located inside the Grandin Medical Clinic on St. Anne Street, has generated about $5 over the last two years, which works out to 10 phone calls.TechFeb 10, 2022
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How often are payphones used in Alberta?Phone companies told the CRTC that 636 of their payphones weren’t used even once in the last 13 months and that about 10,000 phones were taking in less than 50 cents a day.CanadaJul 19, 2016
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NYC embarks on big plan to reinvent payphones as Wi-Fi hot spotsA 9-foot-tall structure installed on a Manhattan sidewalk is signalling a plan to turn payphones into the world's biggest and fastest municipal Wi-Fi network.TechJan 1, 2016
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Death of the payphone? CRTC to tighten rules on removing public phonesThe Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is proposing to tighten the rules companies must follow when they decide to cut the cord on the last public phone in a community.CanadaFeb 26, 2015
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CRTC wants to know if Canadians still use payphonesThe Canadian Radio-Televeision Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is now trying to find out just how many Canadians still use payphones, how often and why.Jul 23, 2013
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