The GoodPhone Project upcycles old pay phones, converts them to VoIP, and places them in neighborhoods where some residents ...

Payphones are borderline extinct in the U.S., but the need for public phone access still exists. There were more than two ...

This refurbished pay phone installed at the Brownell Library in Essex Junction, Vermont has been used to make over 300 calls in the past few months. All in all, it seemed like a relatively simple job ...

Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone. It was an anonymous call from a pay phone. She listened and was momentarily paralyzed. And then she couldn't stop crying. The call wasn't completely ...

Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast, ...

"After Sandy, Wired New Yorkers Get Reconnected With Pay Phones: Coin-Eating Retro Devices Baffle Some, Frustrate Many; Moment Merits a Tweet." That Wall Street Journal story today, about folks in ...

TUNBRIDGE, Vt. — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he ...

The Goodbye Line is an art project found on pay phones throughout the Los Angeles area. Hearing the goodbyes of others makes life “less lonely, less scary,” says Adam Trunell, left, who created the ...

Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone. It was an anonymous call from a pay phone. She listened and was momentarily paralyzed. And then she couldn’t stop crying. The call wasn’t completely ...