Tampa, Fla., Pay Phone Company Ringing In Profits.(Originated from St....

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ......nice photo of a pay phone on a pole in the...Fifteen thousand pay phones later, Hill and...expanded into the pay phone business. One of...its 15,000-plus pay phones. But it wasn't always...locations to put a pay phone. But to the trained...Demirdjian says. ...

Pay phone problem: Dial `M' for missing Many vanish as profits fall

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 9, 2001 ;     502 words ......phone," he said. Pay phone operators say...the owners of pay phones more than $1...on unprofitable pay phones and threatened...We evaluate our pay phones on a daily basis...we determine a pay phone should be removed...pay less than pay phone ...

Pay phone usage fading away Number of units dropping as more and more...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  August 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ......phones has made the pay phone business a lot tougher...about 400,000 fewer pay phones throughout the country...years ago, you put a pay phone almost anywhere...and operates 1,800 pay phones throughout Illinois...stake in the overall pay phone market. In ...

Will the pay phone become a "new economy" casualty? What's Superman to do?...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ......dying dinosaur. Pay phone operators in Minnesota...that the number of pay phones is declining. But...to 588. Since the pay phone industry was deregulated...total number of pay phones in Minnesota, according...to make calls on pay phones, part of the ...

Government to offer incentives to keep pay phone market alive

Post-Tribune (IN);  April 6, 2001 ;     438 words ......pull out of the pay phone business. "There were pay phone providers wondering...anyone cared about pay phones," said Vincent...operate about 500,000 pay phones. Each time a caller...long-distance call, the pay phone operator is supposed...143,000 of its ...

In Cellphone Age, Pay Phone Industry Looks for New Ways to Make Profit.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ......might think the pay phone industry needs a...that still maintain pay phones -- 117 years old...ways to make its pay phone base more versatile...Verizon operates 5,500 pay phones in the Capital Region...its own advanced pay phones start to enter ...

Pay phone rates are deregulated; Costs to customers in Minnesota appear...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 8, 1997 ;     434 words ......government deregulated pay phone rates Tuesday, but...away. Deregulation of pay phone rates is a result of...competition will help keep pay phone prices down, has taken pay phone rates out of the jurisdiction...regulators and allowed pay phone owners to ...

Requiem for the Pay Phone; As Cell Phone Use Increases, an Icon Gradually...

The Washington Post;  December 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ......bin of the dead pay phone, which now averages...indignity to the way pay phones go. They are covered...shiny base of the pay phone shells degrade to...maintained 1,100 pay phones, but a year ago...mentally out of the pay phone business now," said...who is ...

Technology driving the pay phone to extinction

The Gazette;  August 10, 2008 ;     513 words ......dropped a dime into a pay phone. Thus the phrase...into history as pay phones disappear from the...ofi its 14-state pay phone business to Chicago-bas...then the number of pay phones has steadily declined...neighborhoods are where pay phones can make money. ...

Government tries to keep pay-phone market alive

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 6, 2001 ;     320 words ...WASHINGTON (AP) - As pay phones rapidly vanish...to ensure that pay phone businesses get...pull out of the pay phone business. "There were pay phone providers wondering...anyone cared about pay phones," said Vincent...143,000 of its pay phones ...

Pay Phone Industry Struggles with Deregulation, as Cell Phones Gain...

The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Since 1996, the pay phone industry has been...availability of pay phones. But the wide-open...actual owner of the pay phone at 24 Hour Fitness...owns nearly 1,600 pay phones and pays for placement...month it handles. Pay phones make owners roughly...whose ...

FCC Permits Companies to Set Rates for Pay-Phone Calls.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 8, 1997 ;     456 words ......companies that own pay phones to charge whatever...calls. We expect pay phone prices to go up...companies that operate pay phones in the area were...4-billion-a-year pay phone industry says deregulation...others that have pay phones more choice in ...

Pay phone calls to cost 35 cents

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  September 29, 1998 ;     449 words ......rate is that pay phones now face competition...Hawaiian Tel. "Now pay phone service competes...companies providing pay phone services, means...revenue from pay phones while costs...call on GTE pay phones. GTE says some other pay phone ...

BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? U S WEST IS RAISING PAY PHONE RATE TO...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 9, 1998 ;     270 words ......an extra dime handy the next time you use a pay phone. U S West is raising its pay phone rate from 25 cents to 35 cents in Colorado...Minnesota, Utah and New Mexico. More than 16,000 pay phones in Colorado will be converted to the new rate...The price of using directory assistance ...

Pay Phone Companies Allowed to Raise Prices; No Immediate Increases...

The Washington Post;  October 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Sometime soon, when you drop a quarter into a pay phone, you may find yourself asking, "Brother, can...today, a new law kicks in that will allow pay phone companies to charge whatever they please for coin-operated local calls. Major pay phone companies in the District, Maryland and ...