The hotel where we are having our office conference had payphones in the hallway until this morning. Some time during the night or morning, a Bellsouth tech came in and ripped them out, literally leaving dangling wires in the walls.
It all comes as a result of Bellsouth exiting the payphone business, deciding things are going mobile. Good bet, but the old payphones are going to be missed. When you needed a phone (and didn’t have your mobile phone), it was nice to be able to find one.
Up until recently, you could buy your own Bellsouth phone from this website, though they seem to have sold out now. I’m kind of on the fence for wanting one of these. I’d like to own a piece of history, but I’m not sure I’d like the accompanying germs from a public phone. 🙂